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Partners in Crime
UK 1961
produced by Jack Greenwood for Merton Park Studios
directed by Peter Duffell
starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond, John Van Eyssen, Stanley Morgan, Gordon Boyd, Mark Singleton, Victor Platt, Danny Sewell, Robert Sansom, Nicholas Smith, Ernest Clark, Richard Shaw, Graham Leaman, Hilary Martyn, Clive Marshall, Ruth Meyers, Larry Martyn, Deidre Day, Peter Howard-Johnson
screenplay by Robert Banks Stewart, based on the novel The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace, music by Ron Goodwin
Merton Park Studios' Edgar Wallace Mysteries
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Harold Strickland (Victor Platt), boss of a successful soft drink
company, is shot dead by a burglar he catches red-handed - but said
burglar doesn't get away with more then 50 Pounds, which baffles Scotland
Yard inspector Mann (Bernard Lee) a bit. But he has little to go on but
the bullet from the burglar's gun, which as an isolated clue is pretty
worthless. What the inspector doesn't know of course is that the burglar
was actually one of his company's delivery drivers, Rex (Gordon Boyd), who
has been hired by Strickland's partner Merril (John Van Eyssen) to kill
him and make it look like a burglary - basically because Merril wants to
take over the company on his own and also has an affair with Strickland's
wife Freda (Moira Redmond). And it seems he has just committed the perfect
crime - if it wasn't for Rex, who's a bit negligent when it comes to
getting rid of the gun, so two young punks nick it right out of his
delivery truck, then try to sell it to a pawn shop - but the shop clerk,
instead of just giving them money, has them come back later under a
pretense and calls the police, who take the young punks into custody and
question them. Mann isn't convinced for one moment that they did it, and
ultimately he gets the truth out of them as to where they have the gun
from. Problem is, in the meantime, Merril has learned that Rex has messed
up, so he decides to go after him to silence him for good, and it's really
a question of time now if he or the police will get to Rex first ... A
nice no-frills crime thriller that might not hold much surprises for the
audience, but moves along at a steady enough space to just entertain from
beginning to end, with a direction that keeps things down to earth and a
strong cast, making this very solid low budget genre entertainment.
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