Murder by Proxy
| Murder by Proxy | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Terence Fisher |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Richard Landau |
| Based on | the novel Murder by Proxy by Helen Nielsen |
| Starring |
Dane Clark Betty Ann Davies Belinda Lee |
| Music by | Ivor Slaney |
| Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
| Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
Production company | |
| Distributed by |
Lippert Pictures (US) Exclusive Films (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Murder by Proxy, released in the United States as Blackout, is a 1954 British crime drama film directed by Terence Fisher.[1] It stars Dane Clark and Belinda Lee.[2] The screenplay concerns a man who is offered money to marry a woman.
Plot summary
Drunk and down-and-out Casey Morrow (Clark) in London is approached by a young and beautiful heiress, Phyllis Brunner (Lee) with an offer of lots of money if he will marry her. He accepts, but then wakes up the next morning in some other woman's apartment with blood on his coat from the murder of Brunner's father. Now he must unravel the mystery to clear his name, which leads him into a twisted labyrinth of encounters with various suspicious characters who seem to make his situation worse the more he learns.
Cast
- Dane Clark as Casey Morrow
- Belinda Lee as Phyllis Brunner
- Betty Ann Davies as Mrs. Alicia Brunner
- Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie Doone
- Andrew Osborn as Lance Gordon
- Harold Lang as Travis / Victor Vanno
- Jill Melford as Miss Nardis
- Alvys Maben as Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)
- Michael Golden as Inspector Johnson
- Nora Gordon as Casey's Mother
- Alfie Bass as Ernie
References
External links
- Murder by Proxy on IMDb
- Blackout at the TCM Movie Database
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