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Exposed to an unknown killer...
A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.
The Girl in the Picture
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01 Jan 1957
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I seem to have enjoyed this more than most reviewers. I thought it was a fairly nifty little thriller -- at only 63 minutes it certainly doesn't outstay its welcome, and director Don Chaffey builds the race-against-time tension well. On the acting front, Donald Houston makes a likeable lead, and Maurice Kaufmann a suitably hissable villain.
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An energetic British crime reporter (wavy-haired Donald Houston) gets a tip that a photo which recently ran in the paper may contain a clue to a murder.
Can the reporter track down the title girl (Junia Crawford) before the detective inspector (Patrick Holt) and crack the case?
It was good fun to see the location shots of 1950s London, but the rest is a muddle, with abrupt choppy-choppy cuts that often don't match or make much cinematic sense.
With Paddy Joyce as a shifty sniveling Irish mechanic and John Paul as a dutiful police underling. Maurice Kaufmann is our villain, an urbane homicidal nightclub manager.
The print on YouTube is missing audio in a few crucial spots, and the gaps have been patched clumsily with distracting anachronistic music cues and sound effects, all of which are a major buzzkill.
Forgettable.
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Although the short running time for this crime film does mean characterisation takes a back seat this still manages to do most of what other similar films that are longer have done while having the advantage of good pacing and not outstaying its welcome. The cast is also good, it is predominantly engrossing, has some decent tension and the finale is fun.
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I'll become a bit of a broken record with these Talking Pictures movies, I'm afraid, this is another "okay" but forgettable quickie. Really nothing about this one struck me as remarkable but at least it had a story I could follow.
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It’s a slow movie with many faults in the acting, with some half decent shots and a fine story that delivers good enough