Noose for a Lady
1953 film by Wolf Rilla
- Dennis Price
- Rona Anderson
- Ronald Howard
Production
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Insignia Films
Release dates
- 8 April 1953 (1953-04-08) (London)
- 20 July 1953 (1953-07-20) (UK)
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Noose for a Lady is a 1953 British crime film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Dennis Price, Rona Anderson and Ronald Howard.[2] It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Plot
The plot concerns an amateur detective Simon Gale (Price) who races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband.[3]
Simon meets the murdered man's daughter, Jill, who had earlier promised her stepmother that she would continue to try to prove her innocence, and Simon offers to help. He begins questioning local people, and learns that the husband was a thoroughly unpleasant man who enjoyed holding people's secrets over their heads, not for monetary gain, but for the pleasure of seeing them squirm - and several local people had secrets. More deaths occur before Gale discovers the truth. He assembles all the suspects in a single room in a large house and announces that one of them is a murderer. He manoeuvres the real killer into making a mistake, then explains who the murderer is and how he reached that conclusion.
Cast
- Dennis Price as Simon Gale
- Rona Anderson as Jill Hallam
- Ronald Howard as Dr. Evershed
- Pamela Alan as Margaret Hallam
- Melissa Stribling as Vanessa Lane
- Alison Leggatt as Mrs. Langdon-Humphries
- Esma Cannon as Miss Ginch
- Charles Lloyd-Pack as Robert Upcott
- Colin Tapley as Major Fergusson
- Robert Brown as Jonas Rigg
- George Merritt as Sergeant Frost
- Doris Yorke as Mrs. Barratt
- Gabrielle Blunt as Agnes Potter
- Joe Linnane as The Prison Chaplain
- Eric Messiter as The Judge
- Michael Nightingale as The Barrister
- Ian Wallace as The Landlord
- Donald Bisset as Superintendent Shelford
Critical reception
TV Guide called the film "Overly chatty";[4] Cinema Retro found it "A quaint, cliché ridden drama," concluding more positively, "yes, of course it creaks a little, but if nothing else it’s guaranteed to hold your attention for its succinct 70-minute runtime";[5] and DVD Beaver saluted "A taut, complex whodunit with a brilliantly nerve-racking climax."[6]
References
- ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Noose for a Lady (1953)". Archived from the original on 15 January 2009.
- ^ "Noose for a Lady (1953) - Wolf Rilla - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Noose For A Lady". TVGuide.com.
- ^ "DVD REVIEW: "NOOSE FOR A LADY" (1953) STARRING RONA ANDERSON AND DENNIS PRICE - Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s". www.cinemaretro.com.
- ^ "Noose for a Lady - Dennis Price". www.dvdbeaver.com.
External links
- Noose for a Lady at IMDb
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Films directed by Wolf Rilla
- Noose for a Lady (1953)
- Glad Tidings (1953)
- Marilyn (1953)
- The Large Rope (1953)
- The Black Rider (1954)
- The End of the Road (1954)
- Stock Car (1955)
- The Blue Peter (1955)
- Pacific Destiny (1956)
- The Scamp (1957)
- Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
- Witness in the Dark (1959)
- Village of the Damned (1960)
- Piccadilly Third Stop (1960)
- Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
- Cairo (1963)
- The World Ten Times Over (1963)
- Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973)
- Bedtime with Rosie (1975)
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