| The Man Who Was Nobody | |
| Director: | Montgomery Tully |
| Producer: | Jack Greenwood |
| Screenplay: | James Eastwood |
| Editing: | Bernard Gribble |
| Music: | Francis Chagrin |
| Starring: | Hazel Court John Crawford Lisa Daniely |
| Cinematography: | Brian Rhodes |
| Studio: | Merton Park Studios |
| Distributor: | Anglo-Amalgamated |
| Runtime: | 58 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
The Man Who Was Nobody is a 1960 British second feature[1] film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Hazel Court, John Crawford and Lisa Daniely.[2] The screenplay was by James Eastwood, based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel of the same name. It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965.
Man-about-town James Tynewood pays for an expensive diamond. His cheque bounces and he disappears. His solicitor employs private eye Marjorie Stedman to find him. When Tynewood is found dead on the River Thames shore, the mysterious "South Africa Smith" appears and offers to help Stedman find the killer.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Freely, and foggily, adapted version of an Edgar Wallace novel, featuring a private "eye" heroine in Hazel Court who waves her good breeding about like an enormous flag. The director's idea of high-life and low-life in Chelsea suggests that he has himself led a very sheltered existence."[3]