Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with identical mystery symptoms that killed her father. The kids' visiting uncle, Whitney Cameron, is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning, however that poisoners are seldom detected and barely convicted. positive enough, no case may be created against the plain suspect; thus what will Whitney do to save lots of ensuing victim?
Most of this movie could be a "did-she-or-didn't-she-do it?" story. 2 relations are poisoned and it's just like the mother, "Lynne Cameron" (Jean Peters) is that the killer, however it's arduous to prove. because the film goes on, one has a lot of and a lot of doubts whether or not she did it. maybe the innocent-sounding "Uncle Cam" (Joseph Cotten) is that the killer. Hmmmm.....which one is it? Was it the gorgeous Peters or Cotten?
For most of the short movie, it had been entertaining. It began to tug a little within the last third however the film, since it's short, ought to keep your interest enough to search out out who's the killer and the way she-or-he did it.
I accept as true with those posters who felt the ending was a little disappointing. i used to be probing for one thing slightly a lot of clever than was presented.
I'd additionally liked to possess seen a lot of scenes with the 2 supporting actors: Catherine McLeod and Gary Merrill. each actors were fascinating. McLeod played "Maggie Sargent," the primary character in here to suspect foul play when a child's death. Merrill played her husband, "Fred." He additionally was "Cam's" lawyer.
McLeod is deceptively good-looking and that i would like I may see a lot of things she did, however her IMDb resume indicates she mainly acted on tv within the Nineteen Fifties.
Overall, this is often positively price one viewing. it's sometimes price seeing the horny Peters in her prime before she went into retirement some years later. She did four films in 1953 and 3 a lot of consequent year, many of them being smart film noirs ("Pickup On South Street" and "Niagara.")
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