Hammer Film Productions
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Blackout
EXPLODES...in a sinister network of evil!
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.
- Original title
- Murder by Proxy
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jan 3, 2023 · via TMDB
As was common in the fifties, a jobbing American B-lister was brought over to add a bit of box office to a mid-budget British crime thriller. This time it was Dane Clark who portrays the down at heel "Morrow". In a bar he meets the glamorous "Phyllis Brunner" (Belinda Lee) who gets him a bit drunk then offers him £500 to marry her. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he acquiesces to this perfectly reasonable demand from a women he had known for four hours (?!) but gets quite a shock when he wakes up next day, somewhat thick headed, in an artist's studio covered in blood. Whose blood? It does not take him long to discover that his brand new father-in-law was murdered less that 12 hours earlier and that he is the prime suspect. Can he fathom out what happened before the police hear - and obviously don't believe - his story? Clark is actually not bad, here, but the plot is far too unnecessarily complicated - it could easily trip over it's own cloak and stab itself with it's own dagger - and that rather robs it of any punch. It's also really quite slow, too - quite a few scenes that add little and further decelerate the story. Not bad, but too long and never something you will remember watching.
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Fandango At Home
Dane Clark
Casey Morrow
Belinda Lee
Phyllis Brunner
Betty Ann Davies
Mrs. Alicia Brunner
Eleanor Summerfield
Margaret 'Maggie' Doone
Andrew Osborn
Lance Gordon
Harold Lang
Travis / Victor Vanno
Jill Melford
Miss Nardis
Alvys Maben
Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)
Michael Golden
Inspector Johnson
Nora Gordon
Casey's Mother
Alfie Bass
Ernie
Cleo Laine
Singer (uncredited)
Jimmy Sangster
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Terence Fisher
Director
Michael Carreras
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