Jack Hawkins

Arlene Dahl

Dennis Price

Violet Farebrother

Ian Hunter

Malcolm Keen

Geoffrey Keen

Patrick Holt

John Robinson

Michael Goodliffe

Martin Lane

Bernard Miles

Christopher Lee

Greta Gynt

John Phillips

Patricia Marmont

George A. Cooper

Rosalind Knight

Leslie Perrins

Ben Williams

Sidney Gilliat

Frank Launder

Val Valentine

Winston Graham

Leslie Gilliat

John Harvel

William Alwyn

Gerald Gibbs

Geoffrey Foot

Thriller

Crime

Fortune Is a Woman

John Harvel Productions

Individual Pictures

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

A better than average crime noir that features Jack Hawkins as an insurance investigator drafted in, on Christmas Eve, to investigate a fire at a country house. When he gets there he discovers an old flame (Irene Dahl) married to the owner (Dennis Price). When he dies in a second fire at the house, Hawkins suspects that she was behind it for the insurance cash, but she convinces him not and they marry and all seems straightforward until a blackmailer rears his ugly head and together they have to try to get to the bottom of things. Hawkins is good in this, he keeps it all tense and although the plot does trip over itself once or twice, a good supporting cast including Ian Hunter and Geoffrey Keen make this quite an intriguing mystery with plenty of red herrings to keep us hooked.

English