Top Cast
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Patrick Holt
Inspector Gregory
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Emrys Jones
Howard Rogers
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Honor Blackman
Ann Rogers
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Bruce Beeby
Det. Sgt Conway
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John Horsley
Mr. Fisher
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Robert Perceval
Bank Manager
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Wally Patch
Barman
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Frank Pettitt
Fred (as Frank Pettit)
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Benedicta Leigh
Policewoman Scott
Overview
Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
Rating
1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf5 Nov 25, 2023We open with a woman walking up the stairs, turning to find a person standing in the doorway and - boom! The police arrive at the rural cottage and we discover that she was the wealthy wife of struggling painter "Howard" (Emyr Jones). Was everything in their marriage happy? Well it falls to "Insp. Gregory" (Patrick Holt) to get to the bottom fo things - a task made more complicated when one of the artist's models goes missing and that's before we get quite a twist to throw the plates in the air and leave us with a rather jumbled and overly contrived mystery. The remainder of the hour seems designed to showcase the acting talents of Honor Blackman rather than deliver a plausible mystery and by the end I'd rather lost interest. It's a low budget affair which doesn't help, but Peter Maxwell's rather staccato and lacklustre direction makes heavy weather of this, sorry.
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