Linda Harrison is about to divorce her husband for desertion so that she will be free to marry a young doctor.Linda Harrison is about to divorce her husband for desertion so that she will be free to marry a young doctor.Linda Harrison is about to divorce her husband for desertion so that she will be free to marry a young doctor.
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Henry B. Longhurst
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- (as Henry Longhearst)
Ian Fleming
- Commander Hewitt
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaWhen Linda leaves Charlie Pott in the pub, she gives her phone number as "Whitehall 1212" and says "if a man answers, hang up." Charlie starts to repeat the number and write it down before looking up with dismay. Contemporary viewers would have readily got the joke: Whitehall 1212 was, famously, the number for Scotland Yard.
- GoofsJust over 30 minutes in, the police visit Harrison' place in broad daylight. She throws the key down from the window, again in broad daylight. When the policeman comes up, he says "Sorry to bother you at this time" and, out of her window, it's dark, with a light on in the window opposite.
- Quotes
Steve Harrison: The sooner we get hold of this, the sooner we get some folding money.
Rita Hanken: I've forgotten what it looks like.
Steve Harrison: The most beautiful sight in the world Rita.
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Short, snappy, but superficial ' so so' murder yarn.
The delightful and elegant Rona Anderson, pops up as the wife who is seeking a divorce from a husband, who she barely sees, but with a new man in her life, a respected doctor, played by Patrick Holt, life for her seems to be back on track again. However, her estranged husband, unfortunately gets murdered! The problem I had with this film, is that the characters never engage interest, nor are they believable, as they all come across as one dimensional. Feelings and emotions are never stirred as the actors seem to go through the motions. Patrick Holt seems to have a range of expressions that go from A to B, and his body language stays the same whatever the scene! He delivers his lines with effortless charm but without any conviction. He seems to drift from one scene to another as if on auto pilot! Rona Anderson's subterfuge of being a tabloid gossip reporter, as a way of tracking down the killer beggars belief, as her very middle class manners and demeanour wouldn't fool anyone! The film itself, which runs just over the hour, never allows the director to 'flesh out' the characters, and indeed the successful capture of the killer in the last ten minutes, seems to border on the ridiculous, since it lacks total credibility! This film is an exercise in middle class manners and will not get the pulses racing.
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- geoffm60295
- Jul 28, 2020
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- Evidence for Hire
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- Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(made at 'London Film Studio Shepperton Middx.')
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Circumstantial Evidence (1952) officially released in Canada in English?
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