The Terror (1938 film)

The Terror
Directed byRichard Bird
Written byWilliam Freshman
Based onThe Terror
by Edgar Wallace
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
Starring
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
Edited byLionel Tomlinson
Music byMarr Mackie
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British Picture Corporation
Release date
  • 19 August 1938 (1938-08-19)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£22,552[1]

The Terror is a 1938 British crime film directed by Richard Bird and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Linden Travers and Bernard Lee.[2] It was based on the 1927 play The Terror by Edgar Wallace (which was adapted from Wallace's 1926 novelThe Black Abbot). The play had previously been adapted as the American film The Terror(1928).[3]

  1. ^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 480.
  2. ^ "The Terror". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  3. ^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.