Someone_at_the_Door_(1950_film)

<i>Someone at the Door</i> (1950 film)

Someone at the Door (1950 film)

1950 British film

Someone at the Door is a 1950 British crime comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh and Yvonne Owen.[2]

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Basis

The film was based on a hit West End play by Campbell Christie and his wife Dorothy, which had previously been turned into a film in 1936.[3][4][5]

Plot

A journalist comes up with a scheme to boost his career by inventing a fake murder but soon becomes embroiled in trouble when a real killing takes place.

Cast

Critical reception

The Radio Times wrote, "this is Hammer hokum of the hoariest kind. There isn't a semblance of suspense...Not even the arrival of jewel thieves at the haunted house...can revive one's fast-fading interest. However, there is one good wheeze, during the credit sequence, when director Francis Searle reveals that the front of the old house is merely a flat piece of scenery erected in a field";[5] and Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings concluded, "it isn't much of a movie, but if you take it for what it is (a late-period old dark house variant based on a stage play), it has its uses. There are a few mildly amusing jokes and a couple of decent plot twists, which is more than some examples of this genre have."[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  2. [2]
    "Someone at the Door (1950)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
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    "Someone at the Door (1936)". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
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    "Someone at the Door – Film from RadioTimes".
  6. [6]
    Ramblings, Fantastic Movie Musings &. "Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings – SOMEONE AT THE DOOR(1950)".
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