| The Set Up | |
| Director: | Gerard Glaister |
| Producer: | Jack Greenwood |
| Screenplay: | Roger Marshall |
| Editing: | Derek Holding |
| Music: | Bernard Ebbinghouse |
| Starring: | Maurice Denham John Carson Maria Corvin |
| Cinematography: | Bert Mason |
| Studio: | Merton Park Studios |
| Distributor: | Anglo-Amalgamated |
| Runtime: | 57 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
The Set Up (also known as The Set-up) is a 1963 British second feature film directed by Gerard Glaister and starring Maurice Denham, John Carson and Maria Corvin.[1] Part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on a Wallace story.
Arthur Payne has recently come out of prison. He meets Theo Gaunt, who persuades him to steal Gaunt's wife's jewellery. When Payne does the robbery he finds no jewellery in the house safe, only documents and a gun. Gaunt's wife surprises him, and he flees the house. She is later found dead, and widespread fingerprint evidence points to Payne being the murderer. But Inspector Jackson, the investigating officer, finds everything too neat, and is sympathetic to Payne's denial of murder. He eventually identifies the real culprit.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Another in the Edgar Wallace series, and rather below par, despite the welcome reappearance of Maurice Denham. Particularly weak is a scene in which Payne, eluding the police, is befriended by a girl in whose bungalow he is hiding. However, it all keeps moving to the customary climax in which all is revealed."[2]