Murder Without Crime (1950)iMDB Rating: 6.7Date Released : 27 April 1951
Genre : Crime, Drama
Stars : Dennis Price, Derek Farr, Patricia Plunkett, Joan Dowling." />
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB
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"And he opened the door" while he opened the door..
This first film J. Lee Thompson directed was based on his stage play of the same name. If not prison dramas, most of Thompson's noir themed films of the fifties like The Yellow Balloon were built on the same premise of a gullible victim convinced by someone else that he had committed murder when the crime never really happened. There is a big surprise twist at the end, it's not very believable because the blackmailer drinks from a poisoned glass and can walk to his own room so that our protagonist will not have to be charged with any crime for his death. To believe this, evidence of where the poison was would also have to be moved to the blackmailer's flat. Thompson hams this talk opera up during the climax with extreme face closeups and hysterical laughing. A binge drinker himself, it's not exactly a surprise that he conceived this tall tale. An obnoxious narrator often explains points in the plot that don't need to be heard. A less syrupy ending would have helped, too.
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