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More UK Killings Run To Earth

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Dear Murderer (1947) Plots Crime's Clever Course

Eric Portman does a murder, must frame another to clean his mess, and before long, everybody's dipped hands in blood. One of those perfect crime yarns where a dynamic open meets challenge of logicalfollow-through, the web closing round writers surely as it does on Portman and homicidal company. It all comes down to personal taste for unsolvable crime that convention dictates will be solved. Dialogue is smart and that sustains even where logic falters. Jack Warner investigates after dogged fashion of cases he'd sleuth on other Brit soundstages, he being realist face of law enforcement as opposed to eccentricity of Alastair Sim, who'd admittedly have been more fun had he probed Dear Murderer's case in guise of Inspector Cockrill. There is Dennis Price, pleading for life as Victim #1, andHazel Court is fresh and well back of horror parts she'd become beter known for. Dear Murdererwas a while getting US-release (by Universal-International), Variety calling it "destined for the filler bracket." Trades could be rough on Brit pix, but Variety was maybe right when pointing out that a "cleverly-plotted part of the way" tended to falter afterward. There were thirty-three UK pix released here in 1948. Did a homegrown industry and public consider that an excess?

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