Mr Reeder in Room 13 – 1938 | 78 mins | Crime, Thriller | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Vintage British thriller based on the improbable EdgarWallace novels. Director Norman Lee keeps things moving along briskly and packsplenty of goings-on into its relatively short running time, but the outlandishplot requires some suspension of disbelief. A follow-up J G Reeder turned up thefollowing year in The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1939), and two Thames televisionseries, The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder, in 1969 and 1972 when he was played byHugh Burden.

Mr. J.G. Reeder (Gibb McLaughlin) is the eponymous governmentdetective called in by the Bank of England to expose a gang of counterfeiters.Reeder assigns the case to Capt. Johnnie Gray (Peter Murray Hill), and toinfiltrate the gang the budding young detective goes undercover in Dartmoor jailwith a 6-month sentence for passing counterfeit notes.