Basil Sydney

Judy Gunn

Zoe Davis

Alastair Sim

Reginald Tate

Ian Fleming

Tom Helmore

Martin Lewis

C.M. Hallard

Aubrey Mallalieu

Ernest Borrow

Sydney Moncton

Albert Parker

Stanislas-André Steeman

Selwyn Jepson

Leslie Landau

Alex Bryce

Reginald Beck

Ralph W. Brinton

Cecil Dixon

John Cox

Crime

Mystery

The Riverside Murder

Fox Film Company

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

Basil Sydney and Alastair Sim are two detectives drafted in to investigate the shooting of a gent in his riverside home. It transpires that the murdered man was wealthy, and had entered into a pact with some colleagues whom he had previously badly advised in a business deal, leaving them broke. The terms of this bond were that in five years time, they were all to share equally in any proceeds he had managed to accrue in the intervening years. Our two intrepid coppers - along with a (really annoying) young journalist "Claire" (Judy Gunn) have to try and discover the culprit before midnight strikes and the pact tales effect... The production is basic and the script - aside from some chirpy one-liners from Sim - is, too, but the last ten minutes or so really do generate quite an effective little dose of suspense and the two lead performances are quite effective, if a little theatrical at times. I enjoyed it.

English