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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <p>After four years of absence during which he was presumed dead, Vickers (William Sylvester) returns home to his wife Angie (Paulette Goddard) and his friends Job (Patrick Holt), Bill (Paul Carpenter) and Harry, all of whom were at one time in love with his wife, and all of whom he suspects of having tried to murder him 4 years ago, when he was hit over his head and has suffered from amnesia for the longest time in the process. Harry doesn't survive the night of Vickers' return, and of course, he is one of the chief suspects for inspector Treherne (Russell Napier) in the process - but so are Job and Bill, even Angie and her assistant Joan (Alvys Maben).<p>It now seems that Vickers goes bonkers, he locks his wife in, fires Joan and even cuts off all the phone lines - something that even scares Angie, but actually it's just bait: He knows whoever has tried to kill him four years ago cares a lot about Angie, and will now come to her rescue. Job does indeed show up soon, but only because he has killed someone else, a blackmailer (David King-Wood), by mistake and now offers Angie to take the rap for the murder of Harry as well, who he has witnessed her with shortly before his death. Thing is, he is neither good at taking the rap, he also hasn't seen her but Joan, who has not actually killed Harry as it is. Bill later shows up as well, but won't confess anything, and then Vickers' bluff about locking in his wife is called, too.<p>There is one thing left for Vickers to do: Invite Bill, whom he believes to be the baddie of the piece, over for dinner - during which Bill actually drugs Vickers and Angie, kills Joan (who has forged evidence against Vickers) and makes it look like Vickers did it. Vickers is almost arrested for the crime, too, but makes a daring escape, going after Bill to try and force a confession out of him. It doesn't work, but then inspector Treherne arrives on the scene to, to arrest Bill, who has overlooked just one detail in his murder of Joan: He has killed her a full hour before he left Vickers and Angie, so the way he arranged Vickers and the corpse simply made no sense, should Vickers have killed her ...<p> <p>Nice crime thriller, not entirely free of plotholes, but thanks to fluent storytelling and a solid direction by Terence Fisher, this doesn't matter all that much. Sure, the film is miles from being a classic, but good entertainment nevertheless. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2010"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>