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Director: | Carol Reed |
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Writer: | Sidney Gilliat, Roy Vickers |
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An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses. | |
Release Date: | Aug 28, 1940 |
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Director: | Carol Reed |
Writer: | Sidney Gilliat, Roy Vickers |
Genres: | Crime, Thriller |
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Production Companies | 20th Century Fox |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
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Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
Name | Character |
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Margaret Lockwood | Anne Graham |
Barry K. Barnes | Stephen Farringdon |
Emlyn Williams | Tracy |
Roger Livesey | Bill Maher |
Basil Radford | Doctor Threadgrove |
Margaretta Scott | Judith Bentley |
Wyndham Goldie | Edward Bentley |
Irene Handl | Gertrude Mary Blaker |
Mervyn Johns | James Fetherwood |
Betty Jardine | Elsie |
Kathleen Harrison | Cook |
Felix Aylmer | Prosecuting Counsel |
Roland Culver | Police Inspector (Uncredited) |
Mark Daly | Taxi Driver (Uncredited) |
Arthur Denton | Ticket Collector (Uncredited) |
Leo Genn | Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited) |
Bryan Herbert | Witness (Uncredited) |
Michael Hordern | Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited) |
Roddy Hughes | Doctor (Uncredited) |
James Knight | Traffic Policeman (Uncredited) |
Gordon McLeod | Chief Inspector (Uncredited) |
Charles Paton | Chemist (Uncredited) |
Jack Raine | Detective Smith (Uncredited) |
Edward Rigby | Hospital Secretary (Uncredited) |
Jerry Verno | Charlie, Prisoner in Police Car (Uncredited) |
Name | Job |
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Sidney Gilliat | Screenplay |
Otto Kanturek | Director of Photography |
Carol Reed | Director |
Sydney Wiles | Sound Recordist |
Louis Levy | Original Music Composer, Music Director |
Michael Gordon | Editorial Services |
Alex Vetchinsky | Art Direction |
Maurice Ostrer | Production Manager |
B. C. Sewell | Sound Supervisor |
Roy Vickers | Novel |
R. E. Dearing | Editor |
Charles Williams | Original Music Composer |
Name | Title |
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Edward Black | Producer |
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This has three strong ingredients for a murder mystery - Carol Reed in the chair, Sidney Gilliat at the typewriter and Margaret Lockwood on top form as the nurse "Anne Grahame". The latter is looking after a cantankerous old woman who is found dead by poisoning. Lockwood is tried for the murder, but ... is ably defended by "Stephen Farringdon" (Barry Barnes) and acquitted. In order to avoid the stigma, she changes her name to "Anne Lovell" and starts to look after another old person - this time one whose wife is having a fling with their chauffeur. When he dies, suddenly, Lockwood's past catches up with her and, naturally, the police led by Roger Livesey ("Sgt. Mather") - who just happens to be the flatmate of "Farringdon", who himself has now become a bit of her beau - set out to arrest her so the race is on to establish just who did what to whom. The pace is good; the performances from Lockwwod, Barnes and Livesey engaging - with a bit of help from a rather aloof Margaretta Scott as the scheming widow "Bentley" and a brief, but cleverly touching, contribution from Mervyn Johns - the blind barber! The courtroom scenes allow for a bit of Felix Aylmer and Basil Bradford before an ending that all came too quickly, and did rather let it down. It doesn't hang about, though and is well worth a watch.