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When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he 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, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.
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Directed by Terence Fisher
Dane ClarkCasey Morrow
Belinda LeePhyllis Brunner
Betty Ann DaviesMrs. Alicia Brunner
Eleanor SummerfieldMargaret 'Maggie' Doone
Andrew OsbornLance Gordon
Harold LangTravis / Victor Vanno
Jill MelfordMiss Nardis
Alvys MabenLita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)
Michael GoldenInspector Johnson
Nora GordonCasey's Mother
Alfie BassErnie
Cleo LaineSinger (uncredited)Videos
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CinemaSerfJan 3, 2023
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 then 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 whe… Read more
n 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.