Three Cases of Murder

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  • Three Cases of Murder -- Dull trilogy of murder stories opens with Roderick Wilkinson's fantasy about an art museum where people live inside the paintings (director: Wendy Toye); an inane Brett Halliday mystery about the murder of a woman who comes between two lifelong chums (director: David Eady); and concludes with W. Somerset Maugham's tale of a British Foreign Secretary tormented by dreams of killing a political rival (director: George More O'Ferrall). Only this last effort shows any imagination in plot construction or character development as the conflict builds between domineering government official (Orson Welles) and sneering opponent (Alan Badel). Some deadly menace and minimal stylized violence. (A-II) (br) ( 1954 )




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