EDGAR WALLACE STORY
DEBUT OF ROLAND PERTWEE. The first of Michael Balcon’s pro* gramme of 12 films for 1939, Edgai Wallace’s “The Four Just Men,” har gone into production at the Ealing Studios, under the direction of Waltei Forde and with Anna Lee, Hugh Sinclaire, Griffith Jones and Frank Lawtor heading the cast. Wallace’s first nove? has been freely adapted for the filn version by Angus MacPhail and Sergei Nolbandov, with dialogue by Rolanc Pertwee, and the story has been brought up-to-date, so much so that the first snot of the film shows a escape ( contrived by the “Four Jusl Men”) from a political prison in middle Europe.
A point of interest in this productior is the debut of Roland Pertwee. actor painter, soldier, and today one of the highest-paid short story writers anc scenarists in England, as a film actor Pertwee plays a small part in the film. An interesting supporting cast has beer planned for “The Four Just Men,” anc includes Ellaine Terris (Lady Seymour' Hicks), Edward Chapman, Basil Radford, George Merritt, Edward Rigby and Arthur Hambling. A sequel to the film, entitled "The Return of The Four Just Men” will be made by Waltei Forde later in the year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 4
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202EDGAR WALLACE STORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1939, Page 4
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