Three Stops to Murder (1953)
Also known as Blood Orange
1953 · Feature film · 76 min · dir. Terence Fisher
Was This The Perfect Crime?
- Crime
- Drama
Synopsis
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Terence Fisher
- Writer
- Jan Read
- Composer
- Ivor Slaney
- Cinematography
- Walter J. Harvey
- Studio
- Hammer Film Productions
- Released
- 1953-10-10
- Running time
- 76 minutes
Cast & crew
Terence Fisher Director
Tom Conway
Mila Parély
Naomi Chance
Eric Pohlmann
Andrew Osborn
Richard Wattis
Margaret Halstan
Eileen Way
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · AKA "Blood Orange" · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-13
Not a bad theft/murder mystery, but you might find it a bit hard to follow as everyone speaks rather quickly in a quiet, clipped English accent. So, you might miss some details but, the action is, more or less, easy enough to follow. Except for the women, everyone plays their role in an understated, if not laconic sort of way - just going through the motions of another convoluted mystery. The main offenders here are stars Tom Conway as a private investigator and Richard Watts as a police detective inspector as well as the usually more ebullient Eric Pohlmann as a shady jewelry dealer. On the…
