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* [[Nora Gordon]] as Casey's Mother |
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* [[Alfie Bass]] as Ernie |
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The film was based on a novel ''Murder by Proxy'' which was published in 1952. It was the first movie in an eight picture contact between Hammer Films and Lippert Pictures. |
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Dane Clark's casting was announced in September 1953.<ref>ZUKOR SEES VALUE IN VARIED METHODS: New York Times 21 Sep 1953: 22. </ref> He stayed on in England to make ''Five Days''.<ref>Round the British Studios |
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Nepean, Edith. Picture Show; London Vol. 62, Iss. 1605, (Jan 2, 1954): 11. </ref> |
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==Reception== |
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The ''Monthly Film Bulletin''said "the treatment is sufficiently persuasive to bring a fair amount of excitement to the well tried material."<ref>MURDER BY PROXY |
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Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 22, Iss. 252, (Jan 1, 1955): 59. </ref> |
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*[https://letterboxd.com/film/murder-by-proxy/ Murder by Proxy] at Letterbox DVD |
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Revision as of 12:36, 29 June 2020
| Murder by Proxy | |
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| Directed by | Terence Fisher |
| Written by | Richard Landau |
| Based on | Murder by Proxy by Helen Nielsen |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Starring | Dane Clark Betty Ann Davies Belinda Lee |
| Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
| Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
| Music by | Ivor Slaney |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Exclusive Films (UK) 20th Century Fox (US) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Murder by Proxy, released in the United States as Blackout, is a 1954 British film noir crime drama film directed by Terence Fisher.[1] It stars Dane Clark and Belinda Lee.[2] The screenplay concerns a man who is offered money to marry a woman.
Plot summary
Drunk and down-and-out Casey Morrow (Clark) in London is approached by a young and beautiful heiress, Phyllis Brunner (Lee) with an offer of lots of money if he will marry her. He accepts, but then wakes up the next morning in some other woman's apartment with blood on his coat from the murder of Brunner's father. Now he must unravel the mystery to clear his name, which leads him into a twisted labyrinth of encounters with various suspicious characters who seem to make his situation worse the more he learns.
Cast
- Dane Clark as Casey Morrow
- Belinda Lee as Phyllis Brunner
- Betty Ann Davies as Mrs. Alicia Brunner
- Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie Doone
- Andrew Osborn as Lance Gordon
- Harold Lang as Travis / Victor Vanno
- Jill Melford as Miss Nardis
- Alvys Maben as Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)
- Michael Golden as Inspector Johnson
- Nora Gordon as Casey's Mother
- Alfie Bass as Ernie
Production
The film was based on a novel Murder by Proxy which was published in 1952. It was the first movie in an eight picture contact between Hammer Films and Lippert Pictures.
Dane Clark's casting was announced in September 1953.[3] He stayed on in England to make Five Days.[4]
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletinsaid "the treatment is sufficiently persuasive to bring a fair amount of excitement to the well tried material."[5]
References
- ^ "Blackout (1954) - Terence Fisher - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Murder by Proxy (1955)".
- ^ ZUKOR SEES VALUE IN VARIED METHODS: New York Times 21 Sep 1953: 22.
- ^ Round the British Studios Nepean, Edith. Picture Show; London Vol. 62, Iss. 1605, (Jan 2, 1954): 11.
- ^ MURDER BY PROXY Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 22, Iss. 252, (Jan 1, 1955): 59.
External links
- Murder by Proxy at IMDb
- Murder by Proxy at the TCM Movie Database
- Murder by Proxy at Letterbox DVD
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