Blackout

Watch: Blackout

3/19/19541h 27m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ EXPLODES...in a sinister network of evil! ~

Overview:

When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.

Director:

Terence Fisher

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

london, england
based on novel or book
blackout
film noir
british noir
frame up
set up
framed for murder
manipulative woman
innocent man

Cast

Dane Clark

~ as ~

Casey Morrow

Belinda Lee

~ as ~

Phyllis Brunner

Betty Ann Davies

~ as ~

Mrs. Alicia Brunner

Eleanor Summerfield

~ as ~

Margaret 'Maggie' Doone

Andrew Osborn

~ as ~

Lance Gordon

Harold Lang

~ as ~

Travis / Victor Vanno

Jill Melford

~ as ~

Miss Nardis

Alvys Maben

~ as ~

Lita Huntley (as Alvis Maben)

Michael Golden

~ as ~

Inspector Johnson

Nora Gordon

~ as ~

Casey's Mother

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
As was common in the fifties, a jobbing American B-lister was brought over to add a bit of box office to a mid-budget British crime thriller. This time it was Dane Clark who portrays the down at heel "Morrow". In a bar he meets the glamorous "Phyllis Brunner" (Belinda Lee) who gets him a bit drunk then offers him £500 to marry her. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he acquiesces to this perfectly reasonable demand from a women he had known for four hours (?!) but gets quite a shock when he wakes up next day, somewhat thick headed, in an artist's studio covered in blood. Whose blood? It does not take him long to discover that his brand new father-in-law was murdered less that 12 hours earlier and that he is the prime suspect. Can he fathom out what happened before the police hear - and obviously don't believe - his story? Clark is actually not bad, here, but the plot is far too unnecessarily complicated - it could easily trip over it's own cloak and stab itself with it's own dagger - and that rather robs it of any punch. It's also really quite slow, too - quite a few scenes that add little and further decelerate the story. Not bad, but too long and never something you will remember watching.