TAKE MY LIFE is a brisk and efficient little 'wronged man' thriller that has much in common with the later Hitchcock movie THE WRONG MAN. This time around, Hugh Williams is the ill-fated protagonist whose connection to the victim and unlucky coincidence of having exactly the same forehead wound as the real murderer sees him sent to trial for murder. The beginning is a little slow and the characters a little stiff, although I always enjoy Marius Goring's villainous turns, typecast as he was. The film gets much more interesting around the halfway mark where Greta Gynt takes over and has to figure out the identity of the murderer herself, leading to a fine little set-piece on a train.
Review of Take My Life
