Couldn't they afford a retake when the glamorous lady villain reaches for her visiting card a line too early? Dermot Walsh gets an accounting job in the offices of a deeply shady firm. But he doesn't get a moment's peace - once he's persuaded by the above lady villain to lift a packet of her "love letters", he is knocked on the head, tied up, menaced by a Sidney Greenstreet soundalike, fake rescued by two of the villains, posts the packet to himself (or was that earlier?)
Meanwhile we are entertained by his wife Hazel Court's clod-hopping dance routines, and a wonderful turn from Hermione Baddeley as a fortune-teller in a seedy rooming house. She finds the body, makes the usual screaming exit and is joined by a throng of other boarders displaying curl papers and crochet berets.
You may wonder why she greets the policeman with "I never thought I'd be pleased to see YOU!". Telling the fortune was still illegal, under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. The law was changed the year this film came out.
Meanwhile we are entertained by his wife Hazel Court's clod-hopping dance routines, and a wonderful turn from Hermione Baddeley as a fortune-teller in a seedy rooming house. She finds the body, makes the usual screaming exit and is joined by a throng of other boarders displaying curl papers and crochet berets.
You may wonder why she greets the policeman with "I never thought I'd be pleased to see YOU!". Telling the fortune was still illegal, under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. The law was changed the year this film came out.