Smokescreen

Watch: Smokescreen

Overview:

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.

Director:

Jim O'Connolly

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

fraud

Cast

Peter Vaughan

~ as ~

Roper

John Carson

~ as ~

Trevor Bayliss

Yvonne Romain

~ as ~

Janet Dexter

Gerald Flood

~ as ~

Graham Turner

Glynn Edwards

~ as ~

Inspector Wright

John Glyn-Jones

~ as ~

Player

Sam Kydd

~ as ~

Hotel Waiter

Penny Morrell

~ as ~

Helen - Turner's Secretary

Deryck Guyler

~ as ~

Station Master

David Gregory

~ as ~

Pete The Smudger

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
This is quite an interesting yarn about an insurance assessor "Roper" (Peter Vaughan) sent to look into a large claim after a businessman goes missing. Fairly swiftly, he discovers it's really a case of potential murder and his naturally inquisitive, meticulous, nature encourages him to investigate. It's not too long before he is embroiled in a tale of money, debts, adultery and corpse-hunting. It's not exactly the stuff of Hercule Poirot, and the production is all a low-budget affair, but Vaughan carries it all off quite well as he tries to pull together the threads of infidelity and fraud, and with solid supporting contributions from John Carson and Yvonne Romain to keep the waters muddy for a time, it passes an hour effortlessly enough.