Looking at this film closely I guessed the film was set in the town of Brighton on the South Coast of England. The seediness of the housing in the 1950's reminded me of ' Brighton Rock ' made a few years earlier. Different plot, but a similar hardness in the atmosphere caused by Post War austerity. A woman of shall we say doubtful ' morals ' is murdered, and the main thrust of the film is the viewpoints of the various people in her life. Jean Kent plays the part of the woman in question to the limit, but sometimes in her hard acting she borders on melodrama. Dirk Bogarde is an American who is more interested in the woman's sister played excellently by Susan Shaw, an actor who far surpasses the others in acting ability. Bogarde is hopeless as an American, and he could have tried harder or been left as English. No spoilers as to who killed the woman and her most tender scene is when she worries about her pet budgerigar, but even that has a dark edge. I give it a 3 for Susan Shaw and the depiction of a town still suffering from WW2 blues.
Review of Five Angles on Murder
