The Third Visitor (1951)
1951 · Feature film · 85 min · dir. Maurice Elvey
- Thriller
Synopsis
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Maurice Elvey
- Writer
- Gerald Anstruther
- Cinematography
- Stephen Dade
- Studio
- Eros Films, Elvey-Gartside Productions
- Released
- 1951-01-31
- Running time
- 85 minutes
Cast & crew
Maurice Elvey Director
Sonia Dresdel
Guy Middleton
Hubert Gregg
Colin Gordon
Karl Stepanek
Eleanor Summerfield
John Slater
Michael Martin Harvey
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Worth a Second Visit · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-12
Very well done murder mystery with a frothy edge to it, that keeps one in suspense until the last 10 minutes. All the actors are good, especially the two women at the center of this mystery: Eleanor Summerfield as the bored and lying wife of the murdered man's partner, played by Hubert Gregg; and Sonia Dresdel as Summerfield's best friend and alibi, who gets caught up in the investigation for helping her friend. The men here are also good: Guy Middleton is the intrepid Police Inspector; Colin Gordon as Dresdel's light-hearted husband; Hubert Gregg as the business partner who was the last to…
