Murder Anonymous

Murder Anonymous is a 1955 British crime short film directed by Ken Hughes and featuring Edgar Lustgarten, Peter Arne and Jill Bennett.[1] It features an early appearance by Arthur Lowe, later to play Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army, who plays a fingerprint expert.

Murder Anonymous
Directed byKen Hughes
Produced byAlec C. Snowden
Screenplay byJames Eastwood
Roy H. Lewis
StarringEdgar Lustgarten
Peter Arne
Jill Bennett
Narrated byEdgar Lustgarten
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated (UK)
Release date
November 1955 (UK)
Running time
31 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

It was made by Anglo-Amalgamated as support for feature film screenings in cinemas as part of the Scotland Yard film series.[2][3]

Plot

The death of a playboy points the finger of suspicion at Bowman (Arthur Lovegrove), in whose divorce suit the dead man had been named.

Cast

Critical reception

Sky Movies noted "Another dip into the Merton Park Studios filing cabinet that housed their short Scotland Yard mysteries, hosted by mournful-faced criminologist Edgar Lustgarten. The director is Ken Hughes, who briskly illuminates the case in question and was later to go to on bigger - if not better - subjects, including The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Mae West's last picture, Sextette."[4]

References
  1. "Murder Anonymous (1955)".
  2. "14: MURDER ANONYMOUS (1955) - MERTON PARK STUDIOS".
  3. Vagg, Stephen (14 November 2020). "Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur". Filmink.
  4. "Murder Anonymous".


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