A Matter of Murder
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Plot
Mild-mannered bank clerk Geoffrey Dent is persuaded by his nagging, gold-digging girlfriend, Laura, to embezzle money. When an attempt is made on Laura's life, Geoffrey runs away with the cash to avoid being blamed. With the killer and a detective hot on his heels, Geoffrey hides out in a Cheltenham boarding house, where he becomes the murderer's next intended victim.
Cast
- John Barry as Geoffrey Dent
- Maureen Riscoe as Julie McKelvin
- Charles Clapham as Col Peabody
- Ivan Craig as Tony
- Ian Fleming as Det Sgt McKelvin
- Sonya O'Shea as Laura Wilson
- Peter Madren as Sgt Bex
- John Le Mesurier as Ginter
- Sam Lee as Cullen
- Blanche Fothergill as Miss Budge
Production
The film was made by Vandyke Productions at Viking Studios, and on location at a former girls' school in Kensington dressed as a boarding house, and Paddington Station.[1]
Reception
Kine Weekly wrote: "Stilted acting and dialogue remove the edge from many intended thrills. Very moderate quota offering."[4]
Picturegoer wrote: "Characters are drawn from stock, with a provincial boarding house setting, and the drama as a whole is most ingenuous. Maureen Riscoe is quite good as the heroine, but the rest of the cast hardly comes up to scratch."[5]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Tatty programme-filler."[6]
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- 1949 films
- 1949 crime films
- British crime films
- Films directed by John Gilling
- Films shot at Kensington Studios
- British black-and-white films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s British films
- English-language crime films
- Films scored by George Melachrino