***SPOILERS*** After bocking the road and having Arthur Charndary, Arthur Gould-Porter, get out to check what's happening Jack Lyons, Denholm Elliott, comes out of hiding and bops him from behind smashing his skull and killing him. Rushing back to the party that Arthur's wife Phyllis and her kid sister Aleen, Hazel Court & Pat Hitchcock, are attending Jack offers them a ride home since Arthur is no longer available or, unknown to them, alive to do it.
It's at the Charndry residence that Jack breaks the good news to Phyllis whom he's secretly having an affair that the old man is no longer around and the two can soon marry. At first shocked about the news Phyllis is soon very concerned when the police in the person of inspector Karslak, Jack Alderson, show up with not only the news of her husbands murder but that her prized crocodile, that Arthur was holding for her, suitcase is also missing. Obsessed in getting her crocodile suitcase back Phyllis has the police go into overdrive in tracking it down which in the end turned out to be disastrous for both her and Jack. In ways the two never expected, but should have known better, to happen!
**SPOILERS*** It was Jack's bad luck to be so descriptive of Phyllis suitcase when it was finally recovered by the police. If he only kept his mouth shut he as well as Phyllis, who was an accessory to the cover up of her husband Arthur's murder, would have gotten away Scot-free with the crime. But in Jack in trying to cover all the bases he had uncovered a clue, that the police set up for him, that eventually ended up sinking both him and Phyllis.
It's at the Charndry residence that Jack breaks the good news to Phyllis whom he's secretly having an affair that the old man is no longer around and the two can soon marry. At first shocked about the news Phyllis is soon very concerned when the police in the person of inspector Karslak, Jack Alderson, show up with not only the news of her husbands murder but that her prized crocodile, that Arthur was holding for her, suitcase is also missing. Obsessed in getting her crocodile suitcase back Phyllis has the police go into overdrive in tracking it down which in the end turned out to be disastrous for both her and Jack. In ways the two never expected, but should have known better, to happen!
**SPOILERS*** It was Jack's bad luck to be so descriptive of Phyllis suitcase when it was finally recovered by the police. If he only kept his mouth shut he as well as Phyllis, who was an accessory to the cover up of her husband Arthur's murder, would have gotten away Scot-free with the crime. But in Jack in trying to cover all the bases he had uncovered a clue, that the police set up for him, that eventually ended up sinking both him and Phyllis.