Three Cases of Murder (Original title)You Killed Elizabeth (Alternative title)
Date: 1953 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirected by [3]: George More O'Ferrall, David Eady, Wendy Toye
Synopsis: Thriller. A narrator introduces three tales of unusual murders. Story 1: In the Picture: In an art gallery an intruder meets a guard and lures him inside a painting they are looking at - or could these be the guard's thoughts as he is assailed for real? Story 2. You Killed Elizabeth: Two friends, outgoing Edgar and gentle George, love a girl called Liz. When she is killed, was it Edgar when drunk or George through jealousy? Story 3. Lord Mountdrago: A pompous MP belittles a Welsh fellow MP and suffers a series of dreams in which he is humiliated. The Welsh MP seems to know what he has dreamt, and even to bear physical evidence of his own participation in the dreams. This unsettled Lord Mountdrago at first, but then he wonders if he can use it to his advantage.
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Anthology, Horror
Subjects: Homicide, Art galleries, Paintings, Love triangle, Members of Parliament, Dreams
Releases
Date: 1955Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Length: 8987 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1953 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirected by [3]: George More O'Ferrall, David Eady, Wendy Toye
Synopsis: Thriller. A narrator introduces three tales of unusual murders. Story 1: In the Picture: In an art gallery an intruder meets a guard and lures him inside a painting they are looking at - or could these be the guard's thoughts as he is assailed for real? Story 2. You Killed Elizabeth: Two friends, outgoing Edgar and gentle George, love a girl called Liz. When she is killed, was it Edgar when drunk or George through jealousy? Story 3. Lord Mountdrago: A pompous MP belittles a Welsh fellow MP and suffers a series of dreams in which he is humiliated. The Welsh MP seems to know what he has dreamt, and even to bear physical evidence of his own participation in the dreams. This unsettled Lord Mountdrago at first, but then he wonders if he can use it to his advantage.
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Anthology, Horror
Subjects: Homicide, Art galleries, Paintings, Love triangle, Members of Parliament, Dreams
Releases
Date: 1955Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Length: 8987 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: British Lion Film Corporation, Production Company: Wessex Film Productions, Present: London Film Productions, Produced in assoc'n with/Distributed by: British Lion Film Corporation, Produced by: Ian Dalrymple, Hugh Perceval, Associate Producer: Alexander Paal, Production Manager: R.L.M. Davidson, Assistant Director: John Bremer, [2nd Assistant Director]: Peter Maxwell, Continuity: Olga Brook, Screen-play by [3]: Ian Dalrymple, Screen-play by [1]: Donald Wilson, Screen-play by [2]: Sidney Carroll, From stories by [3]: W. Somerset Maugham, From stories by [2]: Brett Halliday, From stories by [1]: Roderick Wilkinson, Photography: Georges Périnal, Camera Operator: Denys Coop, [Focus Puller]: Peter Broxup, [Special Processes]: Wally Veevers, Editor: Gerald Turney-Smith, [Assistant Editor]: John Lee, Art Director: Paul Sheriff, [Assistant Art Director]: Maurice Fowler, Wardrobe: Bridget Sellers, Make-up: George Frost, Hairdressing: Joan Carpenter, Music by: Doreen Carwithen, Dance Music by: Eric Rogers, [Music] Directed and Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Supervisor: John Cox, Sound Recording: Bert Ross, Sound Recording: Red Law, [Boom operator]: Peter Dukelow, Logo [Sound System]: Western Electric, Dubbing Editor: Lee Doig
Cast
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Eamonn Andrews (The Stories Introduced by), Orson Welles (Lord Mountdrago [1]), John Gregson (Edgar Curtain [2]), Elizabeth Sellars (Elizabeth Grange [2]), Emrys Jones (George Wheeler [2]), Alan Badel (Mr X [1]), Alan Badel (Harry the barman [2]), Alan Badel (Owen [3]), André Morell (Dr J. Audlin [3]), Hugh Pryse (Jarvis [1]), Leueen MacGrath (the woman of the house [1]), Eddie Byrne (Snyder [1]), Helen Cherry (Lady Elizabeth Mountdrago [3]), John Salew ([Rooke [1]]), Jack Lambert ([Detective Inspector Acheson [2]])