American casey morrow meets phyllis in london. She tells him she will pay him five hundred pounds if he will marry her. For some unexplained reason. But he.... blacks out..before we find out why. When he wakes up the next day, she's gone, and he's in a strange apartment with maggie. Did he just get drunk, or was he given knockout drops? And suddenly he's wanted for moidah! For the first time ever in movies, maggie isn't scared of someone who could be a murderer. Morrow doesn't seem to find that odd, but he'd better find the real murderer before the cops track him down! Some flaws. Lots of time spent on his bad relationship with his mother and brothers. You'd think the coppers would have tracked down morrow's mother, but they have not been to visit her. And there's a bar full of people who aren't concerned that a wanted murderer is dancing around the bar. Directed by terence fisher. Novel by helen nielsen. It's kind of slow, and plods along to the end. Never really much of a sense of danger or suspense. Just the usual who-dunnit and why, i guess. Produced by hammer films, which has been in business since 1934. The company was sold recently to a dutch group. Belinda lee appeared in five full length films that year, but died young at 25 in a car accident. Dane clark was probably best known for his wartime films, pride of the marines and destination tokyo. Blackout is called "murder by proxy" in some countries. It's okay.
