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Send for Paul Temple
Send for Paul Temple is a 1946 British crime film directed by John Argyle and starring Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton and Tamara Desni. Paul Temple is called in by Scotland Yard after a major diamond theft. It was the first of four film adaptations of the BBC's Paul Temple radio serials, with John Bentley taking over the lead role in future installments.
The film is an abridged version of the first ever "Paul Temple" radio serial, originally broadcast in 1938 (and re-made
in 1940 with a Canadian cast for broadcasting in Canada), which was also entitled "Send for Paul Temple". The radio script was written by Francis Durbridge. The film script is only indirectly based on the radio drama, since the screenplay is actually an adaptation by John Argyle of Durbridge's 1938 novel, which Durbridge had in turn based on the scripts for his 8-part radio serial. Accordingly, much of the 200 minute nominal duration of the radio production has been discarded in abridging the story to fit the film's