Locker Sixty-Nine (also known as Locker 69) is a 1962 British film directed by Norman Harrison and starring Eddie Byrne and Paul Daneman.[1][2][3] It was written by Richard Harris based on a story by Edgar Wallace. It was an episode of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series.

Locker Sixty-Nine
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNorman Harrison
Written byRichard Harris
Based onstory by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringEddie Byrne
Paul Daneman
Walter Brown
Penelope Horner
Edward Underdown
CinematographyBert Mason
Edited byGordon Hales
Music byBernard Ebbinghouse
Production
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Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (U.K.)
Release date
  • 1962 (1962)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The original story from which this script was taken is not one of Edgar Wallace's better known efforts, but it is a good example of the type of mystery writing at which he excelled, even if the 'gimmick' surprise is not, in fact, surprising. The plot depends stirely on the intricacies of its development, but all is smoothly done."[4]

Kine Weekly wrote: "The entire cast thoroughly enters into the spirit of the extravagant malarky, and the director, too, sees that never a trick is missed ... The picture has both ingenuity and invention and contains all the tension and excitement of popular 'murder' mystery without producing the corpse. Eddie Byrne does an expert job as newshound Simon; Edward Underdown is a smooth Bennett: and Penelope Horner makes a glamorous and disarming Julie."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Locker Sixty-Nine". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Locker Sixty Nine (1962)". Radio Times.
  3. ^ "Rewind @ www.dvdcompare.net - Locker Sixty Nine AKA Locker 69 (1962)". www.dvdcompare.net.
  4. ^ "Locker Sixty-Nine". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 30 (348): 23. 1 January 1963 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "Locker Sixty-Nine". Kine Weekly. 542 (2881): 15. 20 December 1962.
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