''Ricochet'' is a 1963 British

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott. Part of the long-running series of

Edgar Wallace Mysteries The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''Th ...

films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1922 novel '' The Angel of Terror''.

Cast

* Maxine Audley as Yvonne Phipps * Richard Leech as Alan Phipps * Alex Scott as John Brodie *

Dudley Foster Frank Dudley Foster (7 August 1924 – 8 January 1973) was an English actor who regularly appeared in television roles. Foster was born in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire. His family had established links with the theatre; and a brother an ...

as Peter Dexter * Patrick Magee as Insp. Cummings *

Frederick Piper Frederick Piper (23 September 1902 – 22 September 1979) was an English actor of stage and screen who appeared in over 80 films and many television productions in a career spanning over 40 years. Piper studied drama under Elsie Fogerty at the ...

as Siddall * June Murphy as Judy * Virginia Wetherell as Brenda * Alec Bregonzi as Max * Keith Smith as Porter * Peter Torquill as Sgt. Walters * Nancy Nevinson as Elsie Siddall * William Dysart as first skater * Barbara Roscoe as pretty girl skater * Anne Godley as wardress * Maris Tant as girl skater * Marian Horton as waitress

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those wi ...

'' wrote: "Edgar Wallace's worldly, thinly ingenious story is here transposed to a contemporary suburban setting, rather effectively photographed under snow, and unimaginatively acted in the expressionless whisky-swilling convention of British second features. All the characters are pretty repulsive, and are allotted an appropriately nasty fate. Disbelief tends to dispel suspense, and the end is altogether too expected. The sound, though important to the plot, is rather over-recorded."

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1963 films British crime films 1963 crime films 1960s English-language films Films set in England Merton Park Studios films Films directed by John Llewellyn Moxey Edgar Wallace Mysteries 1960s British films English-language crime films {{1960s-UK-film-stub