Someone at the Door (1950 film)
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| Directed by | Francis Searle |
| Produced by | Anthony Hinds |
| Screenplay by | A.R. Rawlinson |
| Based on | the play Someone at the Door by Major Campbell Christie & Dorothy Campbell Christie |
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Michael Medwin Garry Marsh Yvonne Owen |
| Music by | Frank Spencer |
| Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
| Edited by | John Ferris |
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| Distributed by | Exclusive Films (UK) |
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65 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Someone at the Door is a 1950 British crime comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh and Yvonne Owen.
A journalist comes up with a scheme to boost his career by inventing a fake murder but soon becomes embroiled in trouble when a real killing takes place.
The film was based on a hit West End play by Campbell Christie and his wife Dorothy, which had previously been turned into a film in 1936.
The Radio Times wrote, "this is Hammer hokum of the hoariest kind. There isn't a semblance of suspense...Not even the arrival of jewel thieves at the haunted house...can revive one's fast-fading interest. However, there is one good wheeze, during the credit sequence, when director Francis Searle reveals that the front of the old house is merely a flat piece of scenery erected in a field"; and Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings concluded, "it isn't much of a movie, but if you take it for what it is (a late-period old dark house variant based on a stage play), it has its uses. There are a few mildly amusing jokes and a couple of decent plot twists, which is more than some examples of this genre have."
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