- Film Review
- Reviewed By Adrian Turner
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2 out of 5
In this very British whodunnit, John Mills stars as a Scotland Yard detective who's called in to investigate unsavoury goings-on in an English town. A woman with a dubious reputation has been found dead on club property and there's no shortage of suspects for Mills to grill, all of whom seem to have a dodgy past. It's a modest mystery in the Agatha Christie tradition, and it offers a modicum of tension.
Plot Summary
A woman living in a quiet suburban town is found strangled to death. Scotland Yard sends an inspector to investigate the case, but he finds there are no shortage of locals with a motive for killing her, while his anger at the hypocritical attitudes he encounters threatens to distract him from the evidence. Murder mystery, starring John Mills, Charles Coburn, Derek Farr and Barbara Bates.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Supt Mike Halloran
- John Mills
- Dr John Fenner
- Charles Coburn
- Elizabeth Fenner
- Barbara Bates
- Mark Roper
- Derek Farr
- Peter Crowley
- Alec McCowen
- Fiona Dixon
- Elizabeth Seal
- Mr Dixon
- Geoffrey Keen
- Helen Dixon
- Margaretta Scott
- Mrs Crowley
- Fay Compton
- Molly Stevens
- Magda Miller
Crew
- Director
- John Guillermin
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