Overview
A composer is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
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Music
Music by Don Banks
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Montgomery TullyScreenplay
- Maurice J. WilsonScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 15, 1961
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cast
Laurence PayneNorman Martell
Patricia DaintonHelen Martell
Jane GriffithsPeggy Hill
Edward UnderdownDr. Peter Murdoch
John ArnattSupt. Ross
Humphrey LestocqSimmons, the Producer
Lucy GriffithsMiss Potter- Olive MilbourneMrs. Booth
Arthur HewlettMarshall
Annette KerrCinema cashier
Cleo LaineCleo
Dudley MooreRehearsal Pianist (Uncredited)- Sylvia DavisCinema sales girl (uncredited)
Max FaulknerDet. Sgt. Fred Smith (uncredited)- Garard GreenPatrol car policeman (uncredited)
- Arthur HowellP.C. Williams (uncredited)
- Richard NellerSleeping Man in Theater (uncredited)
Pat RyanDetective Examining Tape-Recorder (uncredited)
Stuart SaundersCinema manager (uncredited)- Arthur SkinnerDet. Sgt. Carter (uncredited)
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