Serena

Overview:

Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.

Director:

Peter Maxwell

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

shotgun
scotland yard
criminal investigation
body identification

Cast

Patrick Holt

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Inspector Gregory

Emrys Jones

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Howard Rogers

Honor Blackman

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Ann Rogers

Bruce Beeby

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Det. Sgt Conway

John Horsley

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Mr. Fisher

Robert Perceval

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Bank Manager

Wally Patch

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Barman

Frank Pettitt

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Fred (as Frank Pettit)

Benedicta Leigh

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Policewoman Scott

Peter Glaze

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Station Booking Clerk

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
5
We open with a woman walking up the stairs, turning to find a person standing in the doorway and - boom! The police arrive at the rural cottage and we discover that she was the wealthy wife of struggling painter "Howard" (Emyr Jones). Was everything in their marriage happy? Well it falls to "Insp. Gregory" (Patrick Holt) to get to the bottom fo things - a task made more complicated when one of the artist's models goes missing and that's before we get quite a twist to throw the plates in the air and leave us with a rather jumbled and overly contrived mystery. The remainder of the hour seems designed to showcase the acting talents of Honor Blackman rather than deliver a plausible mystery and by the end I'd rather lost interest. It's a low budget affair which doesn't help, but Peter Maxwell's rather staccato and lacklustre direction makes heavy weather of this, sorry.