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The Narrowing Circle

The Narrowing Circle

  • Status: Released
  • 29-02-1956
  • Runtime: 66 min
  • Score: 5.5
  • Vote count: 4

A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

Paul Carpenter

Dave Nelson

Hazel Court

Rosemary Speed

Russell Napier

Sir Henry Dimmock

Ferdy Mayne

Bill Strayte

June Ashley

Christy Freeman

Paula Byrne

Laura Martin

Trevor Reid

Inspector Crambo

Basil Dignam

George Pacey

Ronnie Stevens

Jimmy

Alan Robinson

Parker

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"Nelson" (Paul Carpenter) is a journalist who has an habit of finding corpses - and one of them is his girlfriend's other boyfriend! Despite his protestations, the police - under the suspiciously watchful eyes of "Insp. Crambo" (an effective Trevor Reid) are beginning to think there can be no smoke without fire. Meantime, fellow journalist "Rosemary" (Hazel Court) starts to share an office with him at "True Crime" magazine and after an initially awkward period, the two begin to join forces to get to the bottom of the crimes before poor old "Nelson" heads for the hangman. The story benefits from having a few quirks to it - there are even some diamonds mixed up in it all, and the dialogue is well enough written and delivered. Clearly the unremarkable Carpenter was brought in to give the box office a touch of Transatlantic glamour and Court always did manage to look the part too, so though this is never likely to be a film you will recall with enthusiasm, it's not at all a bad little afternoon feature that kills an hour without you having to scratch your head too often - and the ending isn't quite what you might expect.