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Never Mention Murder

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Never Mention Murder
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Nelson Burton
Screenplay byRobert Banks Stewart
Based ona story
by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringMaxine Audley
Dudley Foster
Michael Coles
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byGeoffrey Muller
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Never Mention Murder is a 1964 British second feature film directed by John Nelson Burton and starring Maxine Audley, Dudley Foster and Michael Coles.[1] Part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on a story by Wallace.

Plot

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Liz Teasdale is having an affair with cabaret entertainer Tony Sorbo. Her husband, surgeon Philip Teasdale, has employed sleazy private investigator Felix Carstairs to tail them. As Sorbo and his wife Zita are performing their mindreading act at a hotel, Teasdale substitutes drugs for Sorbo's anti-smoking pills. Sorbo suffers a heart attack and is taken to hospital where Teasdale prepares to operate. The unexpected requirement to give a lecture to an audience of student nurses foils his plan to kill Sorbo on the operating table. Carstars tells Zeta what has been going on, and to cover his tracks Teasdale kills Carstairs. He prepares to perform a second operation on Sorbo, but this time Zeta, and the police, are watching.

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Such a very tall story, played for laughs, could have been wildly funny. Unfortunately, everybody concerned takes all the silliness absolutely seriously – to rather unexciting effect. Visually, an obviously tiny budget is used with only moderate imagination, but a doctor, for once, on the wrong side of the law does make a change."[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Never Mention Murder". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Never Mention Murder". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 32 (372): 57. 1 January 1965. ProQuest 1305825260 – via ProQuest.
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