At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.
Alec McCowen
- Peter Crowley
- (as Alec Mc Cowen)
Totti Truman Taylor
- Mrs. Gerrard
- (as Trottie Truman Taylor)
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- TriviaThe map of Oakley Park shown at the beginning of the movie is in fact that of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
- GoofsWhen Dr Fenner admits Roper into his consulting room, his mouth is visibly moving as he closes the door, but no dialogue accompanies him on the soundtrack.
- Quotes
Supt. Mike Halloran: I think we already know our man. Think we've met him and talked to him. And the only reason we can't put our finger on him is we don't know enough about him.
Sgt. Beale: Could be...
Supt. Mike Halloran: If only someone in this town would talk.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Dame Wore Tweed (2022)
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Mills Is Terrific In A Most Un-Noirish Noir
It's a middle-class area in a solid town with a gothic church. And over at the country club, everyone is watching Magda Miller play tennis, because not only does she look like Diana Dors, it's well known among the country-club set that..... what's the phrase? She's no better than she ought to be. So when she turns up a corpse, and local doctor Charles Coburn certifies to her dead and pregnancy, up rolls superintendent John Mills. And he discovers a sunny little town full of sunny little people who are most unhelpful.So he digs, and digs, and grows more and more outraged and outrageous as everyone resists saying anything that could be considered harsh or derogatory, even about the dead woman.
John Guillerman has directed an interesting noir that doesn't look in the least like a noir, with none of the hallmarks of a noir. There are no odd camera angles, there are no femme fatales, there is no sign of corruption..... unless you count the smug hypocrisy of everyone in the town. Who got Miss Miller with child? Who killed her? And who's speaking the voice-over from what sounds like Apocrypha at the beginning of the movie? Are they all the same person?
Could be. With Barbara Bates, Derek Farr, Alex Macowan and Fay Holder.
John Guillerman has directed an interesting noir that doesn't look in the least like a noir, with none of the hallmarks of a noir. There are no odd camera angles, there are no femme fatales, there is no sign of corruption..... unless you count the smug hypocrisy of everyone in the town. Who got Miss Miller with child? Who killed her? And who's speaking the voice-over from what sounds like Apocrypha at the beginning of the movie? Are they all the same person?
Could be. With Barbara Bates, Derek Farr, Alex Macowan and Fay Holder.
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- Aug 9, 2020
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- Eine Stadt steht vor Gericht
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- Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK(Oakley Park locationwork)
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1(original ratio)
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