The Missing Million

1942
1h 24m

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A millionaire disappears after a blackmail attempt by criminal, The Panda. His sister tries to help the police find him and deal with an aftermath of murder and mystery.A millionaire disappears after a blackmail attempt by criminal, The Panda. His sister tries to help the police find him and deal with an aftermath of murder and mystery.A millionaire disappears after a blackmail attempt by criminal, The Panda. His sister tries to help the police find him and deal with an aftermath of murder and mystery.

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5.4/10

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This film had its earliest documented UK telecast on BBC Sunday 31 July 1949, on an accident prone evening when it was brought in at the last minute to replace a play which "wasn't quite ready." In the USA it was first televised in Los Angeles Monday 5 February 1951 on KTLA (Channel 5), and in Pittsburgh Friday 16 February 1951 on WDTV (Channel 3). Since it had never been released theatrically in this country, these telecasts also constituted its USA public premiere presentations.

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5/10

Talkie convoluted Wallace thriller

Edgar Wallace wrote hundreds of thrillers.Many of them featured gangs,often with strange names such as The Frog or as in this case The Panda.The film starts off promisingly enough but then gets bogged down by too much dialogue and too little action.The plot at times is too hard to follow and takes a number of unlikely twists and turns.When the Panda is not trying to find the missing million pounds he is bumping off members of his gang for disobeying him.Obviously he has very few followers left by the end.The police are here represented by that stalwart of the British screen,John Stuart.He has a very unlikely romance with Linden Travers.The film is badly let down by the climactic fight between Stuart and the head Panda.It really seems as if it was staged by amateurs.All in all this is a totally unmemorable film.