Dane Clark

Belinda Lee

Betty Ann Davies

Eleanor Summerfield

Andrew Osborn

Harold Lang

Jill Melford

Alvys Maben

Michael Golden

Nora Gordon

Alfie Bass

Cleo Laine

Helen Nielsen

Terence Fisher

Richard H. Landau

Mickey Delamar

J. Elder Wills

Molly Arbuthnot

George Burgess

Renée Glynne

Nina Broe

Bill Salter

Ivor Slaney

Jimmy Sangster

Philip Leakey

Len Harris

Walter J. Harvey

Maurice Rootes

Michael Carreras

Crime

Thriller

Murder by Proxy

Hammer Film Productions

United Kingdom

English

Blackout

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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.

Blackout aka Murder By Proxy

Blackout

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