...than a priest break the seal of confession.
Sydney Chaplin stars with Audrey Dalton and Peter Hammond in "The Deadliest Sin" from 1955.
Chaplin plays Mike Nelson, who has been living in America and returns to his home in England after some time. No one has been exactly sure what he's been doing. We find out soon enough, however, that he's been up to no good.
First, there's the false bottom of his suitcase filled with thousands of dollars. Then he meets a threatening American at the post office, whom he agrees to meet that evening.
The money is from a robbery, and Mike's partner wants his cut. The two struggle, and the partner begins strangling Mike. Mike's buddy Alan has come there to meet him, and Mike keeps screaming for him to get the gun. Finally, Alan shoots the man and kills him.
Mike tells him they cannot go to the police, and they drive off. Alan is devastated. He is very religious and can't believe he took a life. He goes to confession; while there, he is murdered.
The police are aware that the priest must know something, but they can't get anything out of him. It's up to them to find another way to solve the two murders, which they believe are connected.
Pretty good noir with Sydney Chaplin playing a man with not one redeeming quality, a real user who doesn't care about anyone. Audrey Dalton plays his sister, a lovely Jean Simmons type, who suspects Mike.
Absorbing.
Sydney Chaplin stars with Audrey Dalton and Peter Hammond in "The Deadliest Sin" from 1955.
Chaplin plays Mike Nelson, who has been living in America and returns to his home in England after some time. No one has been exactly sure what he's been doing. We find out soon enough, however, that he's been up to no good.
First, there's the false bottom of his suitcase filled with thousands of dollars. Then he meets a threatening American at the post office, whom he agrees to meet that evening.
The money is from a robbery, and Mike's partner wants his cut. The two struggle, and the partner begins strangling Mike. Mike's buddy Alan has come there to meet him, and Mike keeps screaming for him to get the gun. Finally, Alan shoots the man and kills him.
Mike tells him they cannot go to the police, and they drive off. Alan is devastated. He is very religious and can't believe he took a life. He goes to confession; while there, he is murdered.
The police are aware that the priest must know something, but they can't get anything out of him. It's up to them to find another way to solve the two murders, which they believe are connected.
Pretty good noir with Sydney Chaplin playing a man with not one redeeming quality, a real user who doesn't care about anyone. Audrey Dalton plays his sister, a lovely Jean Simmons type, who suspects Mike.
Absorbing.