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Original title

Inquest

Year

1939

Running time

58 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Roy Boulting

Screenwriter

Michael Barringer, Francis Miller

Cast

Cinematography

D.P. Cooper (B&W)

Producer

Charter Film Productions

Genre

Mystery. Film noir | Crime. Half-length Film. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers

Synopsis

Although short in duration this is distinctly a cut above a "quota quicky" in quality. Hay Petrie, who seems to have later been consigned to many small but distinctive supporting roles, here is centre stage in the court-room scene, gives a very spirited and dominating performance and makes the most of, for once for him, a very good role. Opposite him is a worthy foil both in terms of script and actor in the shape of (and here is a very rare thing) a comic Coroner with only too obvious human failings. The quotations in the opening credits questioning the purpose of a Coroner suggest that someone might have been grinding an axe in this intelligent and entertaining legal/crime.

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Inquest

1939

Roy Boulting