Phenomenal. Only the Brits can do it!!!! Bravo. Thanks for the download. I may have to see it again to get the full details in the last 5 mins. The movie is packed.
Oh what a tangled web we weave. A good little movie, well worth watching. The coroner utterly out of control at the hearing. An England sadly with us no more...what a state of moral decay the country is now in!
Excellent well-crafted whodunnit in which two women are trapped by circumstances. The drama is made even more intense by the claustrophobic and hostile environment of the Coroner's Court. This is one of those rare occasions where a play made into film works well despite the constraints of the settings because the style and form actually fit the narrative. Coroner's Courts are often depicted in 30's detective fiction as places where power-play and personality obstruct the truth and this is no exception. The Shakespearean bear pit of the local audience and representatives of the national press makes for a lurid backdrop of comic relief, which further emphasises the fact that lives are at stake here, as the death penalty was in force during this era. Thanks for posting this gem!
Pavlovafowl - Organic Forest Garden Poultry .....in reply. Very well written narrative. You language skills a very good... should be a playwright. Well done! Cheers.
I love the editing faux pas at 17.15 where the camera is supposed to cut to a bar full of noisy people. It cuts just about half a second too early, before they get the nod to start being noisy! Quaint!
Movie was good, BUT the English & Legal terminology kept me googling for the meaning.👍👏👏 Overall the movie was very good all along 👌 But a little abrupt at the end.👍👍👏👏👏
17:14 At the start of the pub crowd scene, there's a split second where the entire crowd is frozen - no one moves or speaks. Then, perhaps at some off-camera signal, they suddenly swing into animated conversation.
A few interesting points. The one lawyer called a little man. The court witness had to kiss the book, who cleans it. Remember the public phones in the day who cleaned those....
One killed another disguised and buried someone else or his victim N as such and while living as an assumed identity, he committed another murder and the one dead sanatorium was the real one who had nothing to do with except his stolen identity but the wife was hiding her husband's identity not to get trouble with the law which BOTH young lady n the old lady were protecting their husbands' names (!!) means reputation for them, wives as well. So, the young lady was hiding her husband who eventually was dead in another man's name! A few twisted here n there will confuse the hell out of most of the people esp inquest judge who though he was in full control but beaten beyond his wildest imagination by very shorty with a much taller brain than the inquest judge, LOL, goes to tell U height is useless but tell that to the most woman who cares SO MUCH about outer appearance with born their nature! Overall, GIVE BIG kudos and thanks to the script writer's imagination wonder brain (!), and the shorty man judge actor's brilliant oral gift acting, which set the tone of the movie industry realized shorter, much shorter man can be useful quite a lot more ways than one or movies, certain motives can capture a big audience' a big interest means sells well n means brings a big money to box offices in certain movies, like later in Wild Wild West Dr. Lovess who was a normal person but medical disease deprived of his growth of height, but because of that disease ALSO made him a famous actor. One disaster brings' another blessing sometimes like someone try to hurt U ended up helping him or her, in the long run, turned out! USA
@@alizadeh5748 There had also been a worldwide depression, then a war. Times were hard. And people did not pig out on supersized portions of things, especially the junk mentioned above.
An early work of the Boulting Brothers, but it has all the usual faults of other hastily arranged British programme "fillers". There's an unnecessarily confusing plot, which is strange given that it's from a stage play. Some bits don't make sense: for instance, you have to believe that an examining doctor would miss a bullet hole and there'd be no blood, or that the gun used in a killing would be left in the house, or that you can rush down to any public library and find specialist medical books on arsenic poisoning. Worse than that there's very little engagement with the characters including the woman at the centre of the case - you don't really care about them or what happens to them.
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