Showing posts with label Anthony Asquith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthony Asquith. Show all posts

8.12.18

the woman in question (1950)

aka Five Angles on Murder.
"Yes! That's how it happened"
Agnes Huston (Jean Kent) fortune teller is murdered and Inspector Lodge (Duncan Macrae) tries to unravel the various stories he is told by those involed, including Dirk Bogarde.
Cleaverly pieced together, into a fine whodunnit.

16.11.15

the woman in question (1950)

aka Five Angles On Murder.
"Seems funny that he should be so careless about his movements last night."
Astra (Jean Kent) is murdered and the police set about interviewing the five suspects including Bob Baker (Dirk Bogarde), and each paint a different portrait of the doomed fortune teller.
Interesting character study, that treads a similar path to Rashamon.

10.10.10

the millionairess (1960)


"I wish to make a man happy."
Epifania Parerga (Sophia Loren) inherits her fathers millions, but cannot find happiness. What she really wants is love. But the course of true love never runs smooth, so someone said! Then she meets and falls for an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers), who serves London's poor, but he wants nothing to do with her or her millions. What is a willful woman to do?
A slight romantic comedy, remembered more today for Sellers eccentric behaviour during filming than the film itself. What is presented is actually a gentle comedy that slips by easily enough, if you can get past how annoying the Epifania character is.

10.7.10

cottage to let (1941)


AKA Bombsight Stolen.
"You a disciple of Sherlock Holmes?"
Wartime and Mrs Barrington is doing her bit by letting a cottage on her Scottish estate. Due to a mix-up it ends up as home to Ronald (George Cole) an evacuee, a wounded fighter pilot (John Mills), who is recuperating and Charles Dimble (Alastair Sim), an eccentric new tenant. Mrs Barrinton's husband is a famous inventor (Leslie Banks) and holed up in his lab in the main house developing military applications. Unfortunately his last invention was quickly in use by the Germans. The only conclusion is that there is a leak in his staff. Someone is spying for the Germans, but who?
A fine whodunit, with great turns by Cole as a precocious kid with a Sherlock Holmes fixation, who makes a fine foil for Alistair Sim's crumpled and permanently worried eccentric.