Top billed cast

1. 

   Ray Milland

   Tony Wendice

2. 

   Grace Kelly

   Margot Wendice

3. 

   Robert Cummings

   Mark Halliday

4. 

   John Williams

   Chief Inspector Hubbard

5. 

   Anthony Dawson

   Charles Swann

6. 

   Leo Britt

   Storyteller

7. 

   Patrick Allen

   Detective Pearson

8. 

   George Leigh

   Detective Williams

9. 

   George Alderson

   First Detective

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Reviews

A review by katch22

Written by katch22 on 2021-07-26

It is very obvious that this was written as a play. It is very heavy on exposition to cover almost all activities that take place outside of the "essentially" one room of the apartment. Nothing wrong with that, but it gives the film a different feel. This is more of an intellectual exercise than a action-packed murder mystery. It might have been better to have written Tony as a chess master than a former tennis star. It would have been a bit more in keeping with his plots and strategies. Even the action in the actual murder scene is "play-like" - a rather exaggerated initial reaction to ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,400,000.00

Revenue
$3,000,000.00

Keywords

• adultery
• london, england
• jealousy
• blackmail
• detective
• tennis player
• marriage
• letter
• love
• murder
• theft
• husband
• murder plot
• crime fiction writer
• keys
• cautionary
• warnercolor