Death in the Dressing Room
- Episode aired Mar 10, 1956
- 26m
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6.6/10
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A Javanese dancer is murdered after alerting Colonel March of danger.A Javanese dancer is murdered after alerting Colonel March of danger.A Javanese dancer is murdered after alerting Colonel March of danger.
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- TriviaSecond of three episodes stitched together and released as Colonel March Investigates (1953). Serving as the series pilot, they were filmed in 1952, one year before production resumed on the final 23 episodes ("Hot Money" and "The New Invisible Man" were the other two).
- ConnectionsEdited into Colonel March Investigates (1953)
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Second episode from 1952
"Death in the Dressing Room" was the second of the three pilot episodes that formed the basis for the feature film "Colonel March Investigates" ("Hot Money" was first, "The New Invisible Man" came third). Set at the Embassy Club run by Arthur Cabot (Richard Wattis), Colonel March is invited to watch a genuine Javanese dance performed by Francine Rapport (Dana Wynter), who is blackmailing Joan Forsythe (Sheila Burrell) by threatening to expose certain letters to the mother of Joan's fiancée. During the performance, March notices a movement indicating a cry for help; not surprisingly, Francine is soon discovered lying dead on the floor of her dressing room, right after March prevents a nervous Joan from making a quick exit. As would so often be the case, a paucity of suspects makes the culprit easy to spot, but a good cast led by Karloff keeps things moving. Dana Wynter (billed as Dagmar Wynter) was making the first of her numerous television appearances, remaining best known for her female lead in 1955's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The busy Richard Wattis, also making his TV debut, had already worked with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff's old horror co-star, in 1951's "Mother Riley Meets the Vampire," and would later work with Peter Cushing in 1957's "The Abominable Snowman," one of several Hammer credits from 1952 to 1973.
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- kevinolzak
- Sep 9, 2011
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- Runtime26 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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