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The German title translates as "Mystery of the Silver Triangle," not "Circus of Terror."2001:558:6026:B:29B0:1CBE:49EE:4042 (talk) 20:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Although I can see the film is commonly claimed to be "based on" a work by Edgar Wallace, I can see no evidence that it actually is. The film credits do not mention Wallace, listing only screenwriter "Peter Welback" (presumably a pseudonym for producer Harry Alan Towers, who is credited here and on IMBD), and make no reference to any source material of any kind. The text on this page claims that it is based on "Again the Three Just Men," but of the three (!) citations, only one even mentions Wallace, and none mention a specific source material. A quick glance through the text of "Again the Three Just Men" reveals not a single name in common with the script, nor even the word "circus," and it's a short story anthology in any case, so it would at most be based on one story. I'm thinking that this is actually one of those movies that was sold on being a Wallace adaptation but is not directly based on any character or work. Producer Towers did something similar with "The Five Golden Dragons" a year later, which he claimed was a Wallace adaptation when it was nothing of the kind. Can anyone cite an authoritative source that links a specific Wallace work with any aspect of the plot of this film? Has anyone read an Edgar Wallace story that has even a cursory similarity to this movie? Until someone can make that claim, I consider this page to be spreading dubious information at best. Mr Subtlety (talk) 20:44, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
