Popularity: 0.4 (history)
Director: | Terence Fisher |
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Writer: | Helen Nielsen, Richard H. Landau |
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When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow 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 perhaps a little more caution should have been exercised. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality. | |
Release Date: | Mar 19, 1954 |
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Director: | Terence Fisher |
Writer: | Helen Nielsen, Richard H. Landau |
Genres: | Crime, Thriller |
Keywords | london, england, based on novel or book, british noir |
Production Companies | Hammer Film Productions |
Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
Name | Character |
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Dane Clark | Casey Morrow |
Belinda Lee | Phyllis Brunner |
Betty Ann Davies | Mrs. Alicia Brunner |
Eleanor Summerfield | Margaret 'Maggie' Doone |
Andrew Osborn | Lance Gordon |
Harold Lang | Travis / Victor Vanno |
Jill Melford | Miss Nardis |
Alvys Maben | Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben) |
Michael Golden | Inspector Johnson |
Nora Gordon | Casey's Mother |
Alfie Bass | Ernie |
Cleo Laine | Singer (uncredited) |
Name | Job |
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Terence Fisher | Director |
Jimmy Sangster | Assistant Director |
Helen Nielsen | Novel |
Walter J. Harvey | Director of Photography |
Ivor Slaney | Music Director |
Bill Salter | Sound Recordist |
Richard H. Landau | Screenplay |
Maurice Rootes | Editor |
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 |
J. Elder Wills | Art Direction |
Name | Title |
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Michael Carreras | Producer |
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Trending Position
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 t ... hen 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.