Patrick Holt is married to Honor Blackman, lucky man, but has been carrying on an affair with Naomi Chance. He tells his wife he has been going around to play cards with an old army buddy... who is murdered. Miss Chance initially refuses to admit Holt was with her that night, so Holt is thrown in jail. When she changes her story, they're skeptical.
Besides emphasizing how wrong it is to step out on a Bond Girl, it's a rather civilized little mystery, as the police go about their jobs in a very civilized way, leaving the audience to wonder who actually committed the murder and how the police are going to identify the killer when they've got such an obvious suspect. It's a nice little mystery, but fa more terrifying to an American who thinks that the police are less interested in finding the truth than in getting a conviction.
Besides emphasizing how wrong it is to step out on a Bond Girl, it's a rather civilized little mystery, as the police go about their jobs in a very civilized way, leaving the audience to wonder who actually committed the murder and how the police are going to identify the killer when they've got such an obvious suspect. It's a nice little mystery, but fa more terrifying to an American who thinks that the police are less interested in finding the truth than in getting a conviction.