In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total
Hardy Krüger
- Jan Van Rooyen
- (as Hardy Kruger)
Edward Cast
- Police Officer at Airport
- (uncredited)
Robert Crewdson
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Shirley Davien
- Girl on Bus
- (uncredited)
Christina Lubicz
- The Real Jacqueline Cousteau
- (uncredited)
David Markham
- Sir Howard Fenton
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJoseph Losey had wanted Peter O'Toole to play the detective, but the producers were looking for a better known actor, and so they went with Stanley Baker. Obviously, since this would begin a four picture collaboration with Losey and Baker, the square-jawed Welsh actor had ultimately impressed the director in the role.
- GoofsMorgan grills Van Rooyen in the flat in a bizarre and unprofessional manner that would be supremely unlikely even in the late-1950s Metropolitan Police: prolonged but ad hoc interview at the crime scene itself; displaying the body to the prime suspect; giving unnecessary pertinent information to the prime suspect.
- SoundtracksI'm A Lonely Man
(uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodney Bennett
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Sung by Hardy Krüger
Featured review
Would You Care To Confess To Murder, Sir?
It's springtime in Mayfair and Dutch artist Hardy Kruger is having an affair with Micheline Presle. He's madly in love, but she's rather cold, and meet according to her schedule, like he's her dressmaker. He asks her to come away with him, but she refuses, and one day he finds her address and goes to her apartment to leave a note saying he can't take it any more. The door is open, so he goes in. Soon policemen are swarming the place and Detective Inspector Stanley Baker is asking a lot of questions, because The woman whose apartment this is has been murdered. There she is in the bedroom. Would you care to explain yourself, sir. Nothing more frightening than a policeman being polite about a corpse.
Joseph Losey, a very chilly director of emotionally and intellectually challenging movies, handles this in his usual icy manner, with Baker growing more and more tigerish as Kruger keeps insisting he didn't kill her, but unable to offer any proof. The audience is on Kruger's side. We saw him enter the apartment, We follow him around until the corpse is shown to him, and we feel his confusion; Baker's growing anger puts us on any side but his. Losey, however, is not on the side of anyone in particular. Both men seek the truth, and that's what's important.
Joseph Losey, a very chilly director of emotionally and intellectually challenging movies, handles this in his usual icy manner, with Baker growing more and more tigerish as Kruger keeps insisting he didn't kill her, but unable to offer any proof. The audience is on Kruger's side. We saw him enter the apartment, We follow him around until the corpse is shown to him, and we feel his confusion; Baker's growing anger puts us on any side but his. Losey, however, is not on the side of anyone in particular. Both men seek the truth, and that's what's important.
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- Aug 20, 2020
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- Also known as
- Die tödliche Falle
- Filming locations
- Beaconsfield Film Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(studio: Beaconsfield Studios, London, England)
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- Budget
- £138,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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