WANTED FOR MURDER is a distinctly British spin on the film noir genre, with an oldy worldy feel and some interesting characters, but it's never quite as engaging or as spooky as I hoped. Eric Portman plays the son of a hangman who ends up haunted by his father's profession and driven to the extreme. The horror aspects of the story are present but kept mostly off-screen, making this tame and dated for the most part; the best elements are those in a grisly wax museum with a delightful Wilfrid Hyde-White cameo. The film does well to cast strong character actors in support, including Kathleen Harrison and Stanley Holloway, but is otherwise a middling experience.
Review of Wanted for Murder
