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"Who Killed Benedik?"

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....

Top Cast

  • Stewart Rome

    Stewart Rome

    Francis Xavier Benedik / Boswell Marsh

  • John Longden

    John Longden

    Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik

  • Dorothy Boyd

    Dorothy Boyd

    Petronella 'Peter' Rickforth

  • Charles Paton

    Charles Paton

    Samuel Faraday Rickforth

  • Leslie Mitchell

    Leslie Mitchell

    Basil Woolrich

  • Sybil Grove

    Sybil Grove

    Elsa Victoria Fairburn, Benedik's housekeeper

  • Cecil Clayton

    Cecil Clayton

    Mr Musgrove, theatre ticket agent

  • Fletcher Lightfoot

    Fletcher Lightfoot

    William Prout, Benedik's butler

  • Edmund Willard

    Edmund Willard

    Captain Inigo 'Glassy' James

Overview

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....

Rating

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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Dec 2, 2023

    With his eponymous company facing bankruptcy, owner "F.X. Benedik" is found slain and it falls to his son "Tony" (John Longden) to try to track down the curmudgeonly "Marsh" (Stewart Rome) who has an axe to grind with the business and might be implicated. This is probably only notable as being Michael Powell's directorial debut - and for a talkie only just out of nappies, there is quite a lot of movement and outdoor photography to help distinguish it from many of it's more drab, stage-bound, contemporaries. Otherwise, though, it's an unremarkable little whodunit with little jeopardy and way too much script. Rome does a decent enough job as the irritating "Marsh" and Dorothy Boyd ("Peter") brings a touch of glamour, though little of substance, as the mystery gradually unfolds - but don't expect much of a challenge for your own little grey cells, that's all a bit of a no-brainer.

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