The Claydon Treasure Mystery
The Claydon Treasure Mystery is a 1938 British crime drama film directed by H. Manning Haynes and starring John Stuart, Garry Marsh and Evelyn Ankers. Murder at a large old manor house attracts the attentions of a mystery writer. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox.
Plot
Lady Caroline invites engineer and part-time crime writer Peter Kerrigan to Marsh Manor to solve a murder. Is the mysterious death of a librarian connected with the Claydon treasure, reputedly hidden on the estate a century earlier?Cast
- John Stuart as Peter Kerrigan
- Garry Marsh as Sir George Ilford
- Evelyn Ankers as Rosemary Shackleford
- Annie Esmond as Lady Caroline Claydon
- Campbell Gullan as Tollemache
- Aubrey Mallalieu as Lord Claydon
- Finlay Currie as Rubin
- Joss Ambler as Inspector Fleming
- Vernon Harris as Rhodes, the Butler