The Ringer by Edgar Wallace (1951)

Posted by william warren on March 15, 2015 at 3:51pm

Moultrie Kelsall

 

The chief protagonist a typical Wallace anti-hero vigilante, one Henry Arthur Milton, aka The Ringer, a legendary assassin who killed for personal vengeance. The main character Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard, who is having a very bad day. It is his first day as the new commander of Deptford Division; his immediate superior, the brutish, inappropriately named Chief Inspector Bliss, is back from America full of ideas like Tommy guns on the streets of London and a British FBI: his fiancée has just taken a job as secretary to a local lawyer Maurice Meister, an outwardly respectable but actually murderous criminal who Wembury knows - but cannot prove - was responsible for his fiancee's impressionable younger brother ending up doing a 4-year jail term for a robbery.

Wembury's day is made miserably complete when the news is received that The Ringer, having been "confirmed" dead in Australia, is back in London and desiring vengeance against Maurice Meister, for Henry Milton left his only sibling, a much younger sister, in Meister's wardship when he left London and after Milton was supposedly confirmed dead her body was found floating in the River Thames.

Cast:

Det. Insp. Bliss.........Stanley Bloom

Det. Insp. Wembury......... Wensley Pithey

Col. Walford......... Donald Grey
Samuel Hackitt.........Victor Maddern
Maurice Meister.........Kenneth Kent

Cora Ann Milton.........Mavis Villiers
Mary Lenley.........Joan Hart

John Lenley.........Leslie Heritage
Dr. Lomond/The Ringer......... Moultrie Kelsall


With Duncan MacIntyre, Sam Kydd & Harry Hutchinson


Pianist.........Arthur Dulay

 

Produced by Archie Kendall

From 1951

 

Size 53MB. Length 58 Minutes. Bitrate 128kbps

 

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  • Magersfontein March 16, 2015 at 5:50pm

    Looks good! Thanks very much.

    Roger

  • Peter Gordon March 16, 2015 at 11:56am

    This is really good radio.  Many thanks

  • Richard Crowder March 16, 2015 at 8:27am

    Thanks

  • abby March 16, 2015 at 7:10am

    Thanks!

  • Anson (Bob) Roberts March 15, 2015 at 8:56pm

    Interesting ,... and a new "Inspector" for the collection!

    Thanks

  • Steve Kostelecky March 15, 2015 at 8:44pm

    Thanks a lot, William--looking forward to this.

  • Gayle Crane March 15, 2015 at 4:47pm

    Reads like another winner.  Thank you, William!

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