Enjoyable, unpretentious British thriller, based on a play - one of those plays about upper middle class couples where the man discovers his wife is cheating and plots to get revenge. There were a bunch of these in the 40s and 50s - Obsession, Dial M for Murder, etc. This is a good one.
Eric Portman is ideally cast as the husband, and Greta Gynt (a bit of a British B movie fave) is his wife. It's got some good twists... Portman gets revenge on Denis Price (a lot more effective in small parts like this one than leads) who has been cuckolding him with Gynt, by killing Price and making it look like suicide. Then Portman finds out Gynt dumped Price and has a new bloke, Maxwell Reed... so could get busted for murder... so he tries to pin it on Reed. Only Gynt really loves Reed and Portman really loves Gynt so both are vulnerable.
Reed and Hazel Court have decent looks - neither is called on to do too much. Jack Warner is ideal as the investigating detective.
It's briskly handled and benefits from not trying to make Portman or Gynt likeable. Solid three act entertainment.
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