Was it murder or an accident? That question is never answered, as there are too many deaths and murders amassing on top of the mystery. Terence Longdon comes all the way from America on the news of his brother's sudden death in Cambridge by falling out of a window and into the ditch, where he was fished out dead. The reporter Terence upsets everyone's circles by asking questions, and he gets attacked for it, and one of his vital witnesses gets killed just before he was supposed to meet him for an interview. Another girl is murdered while she is talking with him on the phone and just about to say too much. There are several manhunts, and gradually the police realizes that the reporter is not just a clumsy blunderer. The dialog is brilliant throughout, but you have to hang on tightly not to fall off the track. There are some girls involved also, and the party starts to smell of something like Hitchcock when he ends up in a hullaballoo of a masked party, where he gets laughed down for asking if anyone has seen someone with a mask. Above all, this intriguing thriller is worth watching if you know Cambridge, because all Cambridge is there, all the environments are genuine, and even the people couldn't be more convincing as Cambridge natives.
Review of Murder on the Campus
Murder on the Campus
(1961)
Very fast thriller in the slow motion town of Cambridge
19 February 2023