When a veteran doctor's wife is murdered, the fingers point all over the various suspects which includes a new doctor at the practice, various neighbors and even the husband and child of the deceased. The murder happens fairly early in the film so the viewer doesn't really get a chance to know the disease or feel any real sympathy when the crime happens, but things are revealed as the film goes on and some interesting minor characters pop in and out to spice things up a bit.
The ensemble of this film is decent but unremarkable outside the presence of Katie Johnson, the sweet old woman from "The Lady Killers", a scene stealer who even Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness in that classic Ealing comedy. Patrick Barr as the quickly widowed doctor, Julie Sommers as the mouthy teen daughter and Jean Lodge as long suffering nurse are worthy of mention, although I found the script to get a bit convoluted and become cumbersome as the film tried to toss all the elements together as the mystery began to get solved. It passes by in just over an hour, but I've seen much better short little quota quickie mysteries that kept my attention a lot more than this did.
The ensemble of this film is decent but unremarkable outside the presence of Katie Johnson, the sweet old woman from "The Lady Killers", a scene stealer who even Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness in that classic Ealing comedy. Patrick Barr as the quickly widowed doctor, Julie Sommers as the mouthy teen daughter and Jean Lodge as long suffering nurse are worthy of mention, although I found the script to get a bit convoluted and become cumbersome as the film tried to toss all the elements together as the mystery began to get solved. It passes by in just over an hour, but I've seen much better short little quota quickie mysteries that kept my attention a lot more than this did.