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6.8/10 • 26

1947-06-171h 26m

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A Powerful NEW Drama of a Mad Love!

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

Directors
Lawrence Huntington
Editors
Alan Osbiston

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  1. James Mason

    James Mason

    Michael Joyce

  2. Rosamund John

    Rosamund John

    Emma Wright

  3. Pamela Mason

    Pamela Mason

    Kate Howard

  4. Ann Stephens

    Ann Stephens

    Ann Wright

  5. Morland Graham

    Morland Graham

    Clay

  6. Brefni O'Rorke

    Brefni O'Rorke

    Dr. Farrell

  7. Henry Oscar

    Henry Oscar

    Coroner

  8. Jane Hylton

    Jane Hylton

    Miss Marsh

  9. Sheila Huntington

    Sheila Huntington

    First Girl Student

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CinemaSerf

Jul 7, 2022

6/10

James Mason is both measured and potent in this crime story of a brain surgeon "Michael Joyce" who performs a life-saving operation on a young girl. He falls in love with the girl's (married) mother "Emma" (Rosamund John) and when she is found dead at the foot of her bedroom window one day, he begins to question the verdict of suicide and determines to get to the bottom of what really happened. It's told by way of a retrospective - he is lecturing his students about a "fictional" case of murder where the killer is sane and calculating - and that gives the story quite a bit of pace and menace. The plot isn't complex and the audience is left in little doubt about what happened/is going to happen - but Mason along with Pamela Mason as "Kate" - the rather odious sister-in-law, manage to create quite a cumulative effect as the story develops that left me in no doubt that right was done!

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
british noirneurosurgeon