Complete credited cast: | |||
Ray Milland | ... | Tony Wendice | |
Grace Kelly | ... | Margot Wendice | |
Robert Cummings | ... | Mark Halliday | |
John Williams | ... | Chief Inspector Hubbard | |
Anthony Dawson | ... | Charles Swann | |
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Leo Britt | ... | The Storyteller |
Patrick Allen | ... | Detective Pearson | |
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George Leigh | ... | Detective Williams |
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George Alderson | ... | First Detective |
Robin Hughes | ... | Police Sergeant O'Brien |
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It takes place almost entirely in one room, and the dialogue, acting and direction is fantastic throughout.
Time has not diminished this gem and it deserves its fame and status.