''Death in High Heels'' is a 1947 British

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directed by Lionel Tomlinson and starring

Don Stannard Don Stannard (1915 – 9 July 1949) was a British actor. Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, Stannard trained at RADA, graduating in 1935. He is best remembered for playing the secret agent Dick Barton in three Hammer films: '' Dick Barton: Specia ...

, Elsa Tee and

Veronica Rose Veronica Rose (8 July 1911 – 25 January 1968) was a British stage and film actress. During the 1930s she appeared in a number of films directed by or starring her father-in-law Tom Walls, including several Aldwych Farce adaptations. Selecte ...

.BFI | Film & TV Database | DEATH IN HIGH HEELS (1947)
/ref> It was based on the 1941 novel of the same title by

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. It was a very early

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(here Marylebone-Hammer) production and was released through Exclusive Films, Hammer's original incarnation. Its running time was just over 50 minutes. It was last shown on British television on

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in 1991.

Plot

The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury

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shop.

Cast

as Detective Charlesworth * Elsa Tee as Victoria David *

as Agnes Gregory * Denise Anthony as Aileen *

Patricia Laffan Patricia Alice Laffan (19 March 1919 – 10 March 2014) was an English stage, film, television and radio actress, and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario. She was five-feet-six-inches tall, with dark red ...

as Magda Doon * Diana Wong as Miss Almond Blossom *

Nora Gordon ''Nora Gordon'' (29 November 1893, West Hartlepool, County Durham – 11 May 1970, London) was a British film and television actress. She was married to Leonard Sharp. Her daughter was the actress Dorothy Gordon. She also appeared in a number o ...

as Miss Arris * Bill Hodge as Mr Cecil * Kenneth Warrington as Frank Bevan * Leslie Spurling as Sergeant Bedd

References

External links

* 1947 films British crime films 1947 crime films British black-and-white films Hammer Film Productions films Films set in London Films based on British novels 1940s English-language films 1940s British films {{1940s-crime-film-stub