Man Detained is a 1961 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale and Paul Stassino.

[2] The screenplay was by Richard Harris, based on the 1916 Edgar Wallace novel A Debt Discharged.

[3] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965.

Frank Murray breaks into the office safe of photographer Thomas Maple.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Taut and vivid addition to the Edgar Wallace series, coolly played by Elvi Hale as the secretary who is a bit too clever for her own good.