General Film Distributors (UK)
Directed by Sidney Gilliat
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Doctors and nurses at a hospital in a small English village during WWII deal with casualties from the random German bombs that occasionally fall from the sky. A patient dies on the operating table not from his wounds but from a deliberate act of murder. Scotland Yard detective Alastair Sim is called in to solve the crime. His suspects consist of the operating team, 2 men and 3 women, and it is gradually revealed how each had motive and opportunity. While Sim is an absolute delight, the plot does tend to dwell too much on the boring relationships and melodrama that make of the lives of the suspects. The whodunnit relies on preposterous facts that emerge with no warning, such as a twin sister and Nazi sympathizers, and the final reveal of the killer is not particularly satisfying.
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