Ricochet is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it was written by Roger Marshall based on the 1922 Wallace novel The Angel of Terror.
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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."
Kine Weekly wrote: "There is an expertise about the production that keeps the attention from start to finish. There are no loose ends to the plot and no untidy red herrings. The director has used some quite imaginative camera angles for atmospheric effect, but never lets them intrude. The direction, in short, is direct. Maxine Audley and Richard Leech are credible as the married protagonists and character sketches are filled in by Alex Scott, Dudley Foster, Patrick Magee and other excellent supporting artists."