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Take My Life

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When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1947-05-30

Runtime: 79 mins

Director: Ronald Neame

Spoken language: English

Genres: Thriller, Crime

Original title: Take My Life

Production Companies: Cineguild Distributors, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Production Countries: United Kingdom

Cast

Hugh Williams

Greta Gynt

Marius Goring

Francis L. Sullivan

Henry Edwards

Rosalie Crutchley

Marjorie Mars

Maurice Denham

Margaret Boyd

Parone, Orchestra Conductor

Leo Bieber

Herbert C. Walton

Dodd Mehan

Hugh Kelly

Dorothy Bramhall

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Hugh Williams and Greta Gynt are super as the couple trying to prove that he didn't murder an old flame at her London lodgings. He is convicted largely due to a formidable prosecution from a suitably ebullient Francis L. Sullivan but she determines to find out what really happened. The odd thing is that there are no photographs of the victim; it's as if she had no recent past... Then serendipity takes a hand and Gynt happens upon a tune that takes her to Edinburgh and soon she is on the trail to the truth. Ronald Neame's first go from the director's chair and it's a suspenseful, taut film noir well worth catching up with.

2022-07-07

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