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7.0/10   265 votes
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Writers:
John Cresswell (writer)
Janet Green (play)
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Release Date:
28 January 1957 (Denmark) more
Plot:
A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
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Very good for its kind more (15 total)

Cast

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Dirk Bogarde ... Edward "Teddy" Bare
Margaret Lockwood ... Freda Jeffries
Kay Walsh ... Charlotte Young
Kathleen Harrison ... Emmie
Robert Flemyng ... Phillip Mortimer
Mona Washbourne ... Monica Bare
Philip Stainton ... Charlie Mann
Walter Hudd ... Coroner
Lita Roza ... Singer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Angel
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Runtime:
82 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Leave Me Alone more

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Very good for its kind, 8 May 2003
7/10
Author: pmcenea from New York, NY

This is a movie that has almost all the parts working, in varying degrees. Direction, cinematography, screenplay, editing all were professionally done. The acting was superb. Dirk Bogarde couldn't have been better. Margaret Lockwood gave an award caliber performance. Kathleen Harrison as the maid played her character superbly while keeping her in the background, so to speak. The one obvious flaw was the predictability of the story. I found this to be a minor irritation only.

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