Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Directed by John Nelson-Burton
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
A surgeon hires a private detective to follow his wife on the resort island in which they live. She is having an affair with a local man who entertains vacationers with his nightclub show in which he and his wife are psychics. The surgeon spikes his drink one night which makes it appears he is having a heart attack. His panicked wife rushes to the hospital to meet her lover, only to have to hide her feelings from her husband. Meanwhile, the private detective puts it all together and blackmails the surgeon, but also leaks it to the wife of the supposedly ill lover. This sets up a delicious ending where the surgeon is exposed literally in the operating room. Good drama in the vein of something you might see on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, in fact this short film of less than an hour ended up being shown in America as an episode on The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre.
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