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.Wood p.94
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
References
Bibliography Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007. Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links The Claydon Treasure Mystery in the Internet Movie Database