What would you do if you woke up in a strange house, not knowing how you got there, with a pistol in your hand and your cousin's body stuffed into a cupboard? If you're Griffith Jones, you talk Patricia Laffan, who knocks on your door, and your reporter friend, Bruce Seton, into helping you hunt for the killer without informing the authorities.
This complex British mystery involves Griffin Jones going to bed in one spot and waking up somewhere completely different, no longer in a bed, but on a couch complete with gun in hand. A knock at the door finds him trying to keep out two hiking females, and by accident, the dead body he just stuffed in the closet is discovered.
After opening titles of sinister hypnotic music and swirling water, we're in a London apartment where Michael Cornforth, a writer, (Griffiths Jones) is making ready for bed. The next morning when he awakes he's not only fully dressed and in a completely different place in the sticks – he's also holding a gun!
This film starts with a good if unoriginal premise of a man waking up in a strange house with a gun in his hand and a dead body in the next room.Then there is that old chestnut of the girl knowningredients that whilst there is a dead body in the kitchen Griffiths Jones can't be the murderer.
This could have been a good film if it had been handled correctly. Trouble is, it wasn't.
All of these aged movies are interesting, not so much for the plot, acting, photography, etc., but for what they reveal about the times in which they are made.
As "B" features go, this is quite a bizarre movie. It's plot is routine, whilst also convoluted, as are the characterizations.
Hidden Homicide is directed by Tony Young and adapted to screenplay by Young and Bill Luckwell from the novel "Murder at Shinglestrand" written by Paul Capon. It stars Griffith Jones, James Kenney and Patricia Laffan.
A good British mystery story from the other side of the Channel. Produced by Rank organization studios.
