A 64-minute British noir where the husband's the villain and everyone's doomed. Delicious.
Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him.
Acting
Maxine Audley's trembling upper-class fragility—she knows she's prey.
Direction
Moxey squeezes dread from drawing rooms. Economy as art.
Writing
Every line advances the vice-tight plot. No fat, all venom.
Director
John Llewellyn Moxey
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