The Old Man in The Corner - Film and Other Media

Film and Other Media

The Old Man in the Corner was featured in a series of twelve British two-reel silent films, made by the Stoll Film Company in 1924, written and directed by Hugh Croise and starring Rolf Leslie as The Old Man and Renee Wakefield as journalist Mary Hatley (Polly Burton in the book). These featured mysteries from each of the three collections:

  • The Kensington Mystery (The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace)
  • The Affair at the Novelty Theatre
  • The Tragedy at Barnsdale Manor
  • The York Mystery
  • The Brighton Mystery
  • The Northern Mystery (?)
  • The Regent's Park Mystery
  • The Mystery of Dogstooth Cliff
  • The Mystery of Brudenell Court
  • The Mystery of the Khaki Tunic
  • The Tremarne Case
  • The Hocussing of Cigarette

In the early 1970s Thames TV presented The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes based on the anthologies by Hugh Greene. The second series (1973) began with "The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway" featuring Judy Geeson as Polly Burton. In this dramatization, the Old Man is replaced by the character of Polly's uncle, Sir Arthur Inglewood.

The radio series The Teahouse Detective was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 starring Bernard Hepton as "The Man in the Corner" and Suzanne Burdon as Polly Burton. The stories in the series were adapted for radio by Michael Butt and included:

1998

  • The Metropolitan Line Murder (The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway)
  • The York Murder
  • The Body in the Barge (The Fenchurch Street Mystery)
  • The De Genneville Peerage

2000

  • The Dublin Mystery
  • The Edinburgh Mystery
  • The Brighton Mystery
  • The London Mystery (The Regent's Park Murder)

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