Review of Recoil

Recoil (1953)
5/10
Hackneyed unconvincing thriller
20 November 2013
Warning: Spoilers
The film starts out promisingly enough.Kiernon Moore kills a jeweller during a robbery.This is witnessed by the jeweller's daughter Sellars,who the grapples with him.She decides to make her own investigations and visits crooked Martin Benson.In the building she recognises Moore but he doesn't recognise him.From here the film runs downhill fast.She actually gets lodging with Moores' doctor brother ,Underdown.She supposedly becomes Moores' lover with the idea of breaking the alibi that Underdown has given his brother.Events then get sillier and sillier till a climax which although supposed to be at night is clearly shot in the day.It is a potboiler which fails to convince or entertain.
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