Pamela Alan is to hang for murdering her husband. Cousin Dennis Price comes in from Uganda and proposes to find the real murderer with the help of Rona Anderson, Miss Alan's stepdaughter.
Wolf Rilla's first feature feature after toiling for a decade in the BBC's television division is a rather straightforward mystery in which Price proposes to prove that the British justice system has gotten it all wrong with the skeptical help of police sergeant George Merritt. This includes all the traditional appurtenances of such stories, including the scene where he gathers all the suspects together. He has little trouble accumulating two additional corpses and several people with some excellent motives and opportunities. This makes one wonder what the police and the defense had been doing.
Rilla handwaves this away, and deals with the endless talking and the help of Walter J. Harvey's gracefully moving camera. The result is a good, if unexceptional murder movie although I suspected the actual murderer about halfway through. There were enough decent red herrings to keep me in doubt until the revelation.
Wolf Rilla's first feature feature after toiling for a decade in the BBC's television division is a rather straightforward mystery in which Price proposes to prove that the British justice system has gotten it all wrong with the skeptical help of police sergeant George Merritt. This includes all the traditional appurtenances of such stories, including the scene where he gathers all the suspects together. He has little trouble accumulating two additional corpses and several people with some excellent motives and opportunities. This makes one wonder what the police and the defense had been doing.
Rilla handwaves this away, and deals with the endless talking and the help of Walter J. Harvey's gracefully moving camera. The result is a good, if unexceptional murder movie although I suspected the actual murderer about halfway through. There were enough decent red herrings to keep me in doubt until the revelation.