A knockabout crime comedy, in which, in order to enhance his reputation, a struggling journalist cooks up a hare-brained scheme to make it look as though he has murdered his sister – for just long enough to get a big story out of it. Unfortunately, however, things start to go badly wrong when a gang of real crooks appear on the scene!
Production Details
A Hammer Film production released by Exclusive Films
United Programmes Sound
From the play by Major Campbell Christie and Miss Dorothy Campbell Christie
Black & White 65 minutes
Filming Began: November 1949
UK Release: 21st August 1950
Studio:
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire
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Footnotes
This is the second filmed version of the stage play, the first being British International Pictures 1936 production starring Billy Milton and directed by Herbert Brenon.