Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA Teacher is murdered at an all girls school. Police investigate and discover that the staff room is full of suspects.A Teacher is murdered at an all girls school. Police investigate and discover that the staff room is full of suspects.A Teacher is murdered at an all girls school. Police investigate and discover that the staff room is full of suspects.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Miss Oliphant
- (as Ann Butchart)
- Miss Essex
- (as Imogene Moynihan)
- Miss Stanislaus
- (as Jeanne Matto)
- Sergeant Harvey
- (sin créditos)
- Mr. Lawley
- (sin créditos)
- Mary
- (sin créditos)
- Inspector Burgess
- (sin créditos)
- Mrs. White
- (sin créditos)
- Mrs. White
- (sin créditos)
- Brenda
- (sin créditos)
- Mrs. Lawley
- (sin créditos)
- Mrs. Vaughan
- (sin créditos)
Opiniones destacadas
This story is a typical murder mystery with a couple of sleuths in an all-girl school, hot on the trail of a murderer who took down the headmistress by strangulation with a scarf. All they have is a footprint to go on, but they soon uncover a hotbed of hatred and false identity, and they must piece together the clues to discover the one responsible.
The film features a leading role for a youthful Gordon Jackson as the no-nonsense detective and the ubiquitous Sam Kydd (who's uncredited for some reason) as his right hand man. The characterisation is slim, and the denouement is rather unremarkable, but the plot remains focused throughout. The all-girl school setting is a good one that Hammer would later use in the likes of LUST FOR A VAMPIRE in the 1970s. This film was shot at the attractive Merton Park Studios in Wimbledon, later the setting for the obscure Michael Gough horror, THE CORPSE.
And the suspects are all teachers in a girls school , that is people who should be models to their pupils ; using flashbacks is quite derivative,but it allows us to make acquaintance with these women who are not exactly the persons they claim to be .
This is OK murder mystery and the murderess 's motive makes sense .
A teacher at a south of England girls' school is murdered, and since she had a talent for angering her colleagues, there are plenty of suspects. The investigation is led by Inspector Campbell from Scotland Yard. He's a dour Scot with a chip on his shoulder (he'd definitely have voted for independence!) but fortunately he's played by Gordon Jackson, who's always a sympathetic presence. I saw him play a villain in another Renown offering, I think "The Delavine Affair," and he didn't ring true.
One reviewer complained about the cut-glass accents, but given the date and milieu they're to be expected. The Queen still talks like that, and I agree it's irritating, but not as irritating as the inaudibility of so many modern American actors, which makes you wonder why their scriptwriters bothered writing dialogue.
"Death|" is unusual for a British B of the '50s is that there's some humour. When Campbell asks Miss Shepherd what book she's been reading she says "Death in Seven Hours", the book by Ms Sharman on which this film is based. She then needles the inspector by saying that an amateur sleuth solved the mystery. This gives the audience a clue, as later she solves the mystery before him, though to be fair that's because she'd seen something and not told him about it.
All in all, an enjoyable way to spend 64 minutes.
It's a classic English mystery, with Jackson interviewing the faculty, finding they all quarreled with the dead woman, and gradually coming to realization of the murderer, but unable to locate a key piece of evidence. Meanwhile, teacher Barbara Murray is thinking hard about the case.
There's very little to expand the movie, co-written by director Stephen Clarkson and Maisie Sharman from a novel by Miss Sharman. There are only three or four shots beyond small sets, and the cheapness shows in lack of characterization. Nonetheless, it's a fair puzzle mystery.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaDespite having a major role as Detective Inspector Campbell's (Gordon Jackson) right-hand man Sergeant Harvey, Sam Kydd is missing from both the opening titles and end credits cast list.
- ErroresWhen the inspector says "O wad some Power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as ithers see us! " is Shakespeare, it isn't- it's Robert Burns. Maybe it's meant to be a joke though- given he's a Scot himself, explaining it to an Englishman.
- Citas
[Miss Halstead takes Campbell and Harvey to the girls' cloakroom where there are rows of pegs, each with a canvas bag hanging from it]
Sergeant Harvey: Shoebags!
Detective Inspector Campbell: You take the left row and I'll take the right row.
Sergeant Harvey: [sings] "And I'll be in Scotland before..."
[Campbell, a Scot, gives Harvey a withering look for this facetious remark]
- ConexionesReferences Harvey (1950)
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Moartea merge la şcoală
- Locaciones de filmación
- Merton Park Studios, Merton, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(studio: made at)
- Productora
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- Tiempo de ejecución
- 1h 4min(64 min)
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1