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Town on Trial (1957)

Mystery | 95 minutes
3,44 8 votes

Genre: Mystery

Duration: 95 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: John Guillermin

Stars: Charles Coburn, John Mills and Barbara Bates

IMDb score: 6,5 (1.021)

Releasedate: 1 August 1957

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Town on Trial plot

"The Secrets and Scandals of a Whole Town Shocked Into the Open...As the Nylon-Stocking Killer Runs Amok!"

When a beautiful young woman is murdered, several members of a local tennis club become suspicious. Police Inspector Halloran tries to find out who committed the murder.

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Supt. Mike Halloran

Dr. John Fenner

Elizabeth Fenner

Mark Roper

Peter Crowley (as Alec Mc Cowen)

Mrs. Crowley

Charles Dixon

Police Sgt. Rogers

Police Sgt. Beale

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Not really all that special, except that I would expect a plot like this to be set in a sweltering redneck American hamlet rather than a mid-sized English town, and with an inspector looking for a suspect you basically have the stuff of thousands of episodes of TV series, but it remains entertaining thanks to the excellent acting of John Mills and the presence of a couple of strong, unpleasant suspects. The punch line when the murderer is revealed is a bit disappointing, and the trick of the height of the church at the end is not very convincing, but this director would make up for that 17 years later with a slightly higher building in The towering inferno.

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