Diana Dors

Patrick Holt

Jack Hulbert

Cicely Courtneidge

Joss Ambler

Ida Patlanski

George Roderick

Brian Oulton

Ian Wilson

A.E. Matthews

Leslie Arliss

Bill Luckwell

Kenneth Talbot

Crime

Mystery

Comedy

Miss Tulip Stays the Night

Jaywell

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

Patrick Holt is "Dax", a successful crime writer who is suffering from a bit of a mental block. His wife "Kate" (Diana Dors) suggest they take a break in the country where they encounter the eponymous "Miss Tulip" (Cicely Courtneidge) - but not for long. On coming down in the morning, they discover the French windows open and their guest shot dead. The police arrive and under the investigative gaze of "Insp. Thorne" (Joss Ambler) the game is afoot. Dors was always a very light-weight actress and offers little of substance here, but at times there is a bit of fun tit-for-tat dialogue between the policeman and the novelist to keep this otherwise entirely forgettable comedy off the rocks. The ending is not quite the stuff of Agatha Christie but it's a little bit quirky and all-in-all this is actually quite a passable, low-budget, hour or so of bucolic sleuthing.

English

Dead by Morning