Ricochet (1963 film)

Ricochet is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott.^[1][2] Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1922 novel The Angel of Terror.^[3][4]

Ricochet
Directed by	John Llewellyn Moxey
Written by	Edgar Wallace (novel) Roger Marshall
Produced by	Jack Greenwood
Starring	Maxine Audley Richard Leech Alex Scott
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Derek Holding
Music by	Bernard Ebbinghouse
Production company	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated
Release date	March 1963 (1963-03)
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Cast

• Maxine Audley as Yvonne Phipps
• Richard Leech as Alan Phipps
• Alex Scott as John Brodie
• Dudley Foster as Peter Dexter
• Patrick Magee as Insp. Cummings
• Frederick Piper 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 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."^[5]