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6.0/10 • 21

1954-03-191h 27m

CrimeThrillerMystery

EXPLODES...in a sinister network of evil!

When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.

Directors
Terence Fisher
Editors
Maurice Rootes

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  1. Dane Clark

    Dane Clark

    Casey Morrow

  2. Belinda Lee

    Belinda Lee

    Phyllis Brunner

  3. Betty Ann Davies

    Betty Ann Davies

    Mrs. Alicia Brunner

  4. Eleanor Summerfield

    Eleanor Summerfield

    Margaret 'Maggie' Doone

  5. Andrew Osborn

    Andrew Osborn

    Lance Gordon

  6. Harold Lang

    Harold Lang

    Travis / Victor Vanno

  7. Jill Melford

    Jill Melford

    Miss Nardis

  8. Alvys Maben

    Alvys Maben

    Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)

  9. Michael Golden

    Michael Golden

    Inspector Johnson

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CinemaSerf

Jan 3, 2023

6/10

As was common in the fifties, a jobbing American B-lister was brought over to add a bit of box office to a mid-budget British crime thriller. This time it was Dane Clark who portrays the down at heel "Morrow". In a bar he meets the glamorous "Phyllis Brunner" (Belinda Lee) who gets him a bit drunk then offers him £500 to marry her. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he acquiesces to this perfectly reasonable demand from a women he had known for four hours (?!) but gets quite a shock when he wakes up next day, somewhat thick headed, in an artist's studio covered in blood. Whose blood? It does not take him long to discover that his brand new father-in-law was murdered less that 12 hours earlier and that he is the prime suspect. Can he fathom out what happened before the police hear - and obviously don't believe - his story? Clark is actually not bad, here, but the plot is far too unnecessarily complicated - it could easily trip over it's own cloak and stab itself with it's own dagger - and that rather robs it of any punch. It's also really quite slow, too - quite a few scenes that add little and further decelerate the story. Not bad, but too long and never something you will remember watching.

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Status
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
london, englandbased on novel or bookblackoutfilm noirbritish noirframe upset upframed for murdermanipulative womaninnocent man