Face the Music
Excitement! Thrills! Suspense! will grip you like never before!
1954 | 84m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Terence Fisher |
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| Writer: | Ernest Borneman |
| Staring: |
| A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet! | |
| Release Date: | Jan 29, 1954 |
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| Director: | Terence Fisher |
| Writer: | Ernest Borneman |
| Genres: | Crime, Thriller |
| Keywords | london, england, trumpet player |
| Production Companies | Hammer Film Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Alex Nicol | James Bradley |
| Eleanor Summerfield | Barbara Quigley |
| John Salew | Maxie Margulies |
| Paul Carpenter | Johnny Sutherland |
| Geoffrey Keen | Maurie Green |
| Ann Hanslip | Maxine Halbard |
| Fred Johnson | Det. Sgt. MacKenzie |
| Martin Boddey | Insp. Mulrooney |
| Arthur Lane | Jeff Colt |
| Paula Byrne | Gloria Lewis Colt |
| Leo Phillips | Dresser |
| Freddie Tripp | Stage manager |
| Frank Birch | Trumpet Salesman |
| Jeremy Hawk | Recording Technician |
| James Carney | Barman Mickey |
| Melvyn Hayes | Hotel Bellhop |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Terence Fisher | Director |
| Jimmy Sangster | Assistant Director |
| Ernest Borneman | Screenplay, Novel |
| Walter J. Harvey | Director of Photography |
| Maurice Rootes | Editor |
| Kenny Baker | Music Director |
| Ivor Slaney | Music Director |
| J. Elder Wills | Art Direction |
| Mickey Delamar | Production Manager |
| George Burgess | Sound Recordist |
| Renée Glynne | Continuity |
| Len Harris | Camera Operator |
| Philip Leakey | Makeup Artist |
| Nina Broe | Hairdresser |
| Molly Arbuthnot | Wardrobe Master |
| Bill Salter | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Michael Carreras | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Kenny Baker's trumpet playing does most of the heavy lifting here in this otherwise rather long and daft crime drama. An enthusiastic Alex Nicol ("Bradley") is the box-office "star" brought over to augment this story of a newly-arrived, acclaimed, trumpeter who finds himself jet-lagged and embroiled ... in the killing of a singer. Trying to convince "Insp. MacKenzie" (Fred Johnson) of his innocence he determines to investigate the crime himself - and he quickly discovers that there is no shortage of suspects nor motives as we are exposed to some of the less savoury aspects of the music business. It's ending smacks more of "Poirot" as we end up with everyone in a room facing our sleuth who goes through them all one-by-one. If you like a good jazz trumpet soundtrack to a film, then you will certainly get more from this, otherwise it's a bit too long and it was pretty easy to guess whodunit early on.