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Calling Paul Temple
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Wikipedia article
'Calling Paul Temple' is a 1948 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan and Margaretta Scott.[https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a702eb1 British Film Institute] It was the second in a series of four Paul Temple films distributed by Butcher's Film Service.[https://www.tvcream.co.uk/films/independent-producers/butchers-film-service/ TV Cream. 'Butcher's Film Service'] The first was 'Send for Paul Temple' (1946), with Anthony Hulme as Paul Temple. John Bentley then took over the role in 'Calling Paul Temple', continuing for two further films: 'Paul Temple's Triumph' (1950) and 'Paul Temple Returns' (1952).[http://www.saturday-night-theatre.co.uk/Radio_Detectives/gregorym101_films.html Paul Temple on Film][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0x9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Paul+Temple+film+series+Butcher&source=bl&ots=E0eXu-KxUU&sig=ACfU3U0fphhq3I3dgfY2iZvwaEUJOp2Frw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjzaDZmc_nAhUlShUIHdNHB-gQ6AEwCHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Paul%20Temple%20film%20series%20Butcher&f=false Chibnall, Steve and McFarlane, Brian. 'The British 'B' Film' (2017), p 65] It was produced by Ernest G. Roy at the Nettlefold Film Studios in Walton On Thames.
Plot
A woman is found dead on a train, and the name "Rex" has been written on the pull-down blind. It is the third in a mysterious string of "Rex" murders, all carried out on trains. And soon there's a fourth murder. All the victims are discovered to have been the wealthy patients of a doctor who specialises in nervous disorders. The detective novelist Paul Temple and his wife Steve are called in to help Scotland Yard's Sir Graham Forbes solve the case before the serial killer strikes again. While at a nightclub, they receive a message from singer Norma Rice concerning the murders. But before Sir Graham has the chance to speak to her she dies, falling down the stairs in the middle of her second number, 'What's Cooking in Cabaret'?.[https://www.lovingtheclassics.com/genrea/mystery/calling-paul-temple-1948.html Loving the Classics: 'Calling Paul Temple' (1948)] The suspects include the Egyptian therapist Dr Kohima, his mysterious secretary Mrs Trevelyan, and a salesman, Hugh Pryse of the Quick Boil Kettle Company (in the next carriage when one of the murders takes place).[http://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2015/10/calling-paul-temple-1948.html Classic Movie Ramblings: 'Calling Paul Temple']
Production
'Calling Paul Temple' was based on the Francis Durbridge radio serial 'Send for Paul Temple Again', broadcast in September 1945.[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/22ee2afe8ee7484695a1f4de1d0b24d4 'Radio Times', Issue 1145, 9 September 1945, p 15] Writing credits for the film are Francis Durbridge, A.R. Rawlinson & Kathleen Butler. Steve Race (with Sid Colin) wrote the two songs performed by Celia Lipton, and appeared himself as the bandleader in the nightclub section.[https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200027468/ Meeker, David. 'Jazz on the Screen' (2009)][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhD_RkzAosQ Credits and the song 'Lady on the Loose' by Steve Race and Sid Colin, from 'Calling Paul Temple' (1948)] The footage includes evocative shots of gothic Canterbury in the 1940s.
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