Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, Arthur Young, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore,
Plot: An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
Crime, class and noir in ’50s British cinema
Three black-and-white British films reflect social change in the post-war years with varying degrees of success in excellent new 4K restorations. Basil Dearden’s The Gentle Gunman (1952) addresses the history of English oppression in […]