"The Edgar Wallace Mysteries" got far more interesting and intricate as
the series drew to a close - I can remember seeing this at the movies,
something about Maurice Denham stayed with me all these years.
When Martin Somers (Irish actor T.P. McKenna) is acquitted of murder, it creates a sensation - most of the public believe that he is a psychopath, luring women to him but in reality hating them. Only his barrister Sir Harold Crossley believes in his innocence - or does he?
He begins to keep an eye on him and when he finds that the driving school where Somers was an instructor is letting him go at the end of the week, takes him on as a handyman around the house - very careful to give him a new name so Suzanne, his wife, won't know his real identity. He and his wife don't get on - he feels she sleeps around but she desperately wants a divorce. Harold has his eye on his legal secretary but since the trial she has cooled toward him, not only because of his zeal in defending an out and out killer but he is too old and too married for her!! She and a younger attorney (the always good Peter Barkworth) have formed a bond so when Crossley takes her away for a weekend (it is to do with a case they are working on) he's a bit upset when she introduces him to her husband!!
In reality Crossley is panicking - he has thrown Somers and Suzanne together constantly, even initiating driving lessons for her and he has planned that the weekend away will act as a propinquity for them. He has already bought a gun and plans to drive back unannounced and play the "outraged husband". Things do happen but not in the way anyone predicts!!
Nadja Regin was absolutely gorgeous and gained popularity by appearing in a couple of James Bond movies.
When Martin Somers (Irish actor T.P. McKenna) is acquitted of murder, it creates a sensation - most of the public believe that he is a psychopath, luring women to him but in reality hating them. Only his barrister Sir Harold Crossley believes in his innocence - or does he?
He begins to keep an eye on him and when he finds that the driving school where Somers was an instructor is letting him go at the end of the week, takes him on as a handyman around the house - very careful to give him a new name so Suzanne, his wife, won't know his real identity. He and his wife don't get on - he feels she sleeps around but she desperately wants a divorce. Harold has his eye on his legal secretary but since the trial she has cooled toward him, not only because of his zeal in defending an out and out killer but he is too old and too married for her!! She and a younger attorney (the always good Peter Barkworth) have formed a bond so when Crossley takes her away for a weekend (it is to do with a case they are working on) he's a bit upset when she introduces him to her husband!!
In reality Crossley is panicking - he has thrown Somers and Suzanne together constantly, even initiating driving lessons for her and he has planned that the weekend away will act as a propinquity for them. He has already bought a gun and plans to drive back unannounced and play the "outraged husband". Things do happen but not in the way anyone predicts!!
Nadja Regin was absolutely gorgeous and gained popularity by appearing in a couple of James Bond movies.
