''Death Goes to School'' is a 1953 British

mystery film A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur Detective, sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means ...

directed by Stephen Clarkson and starring

Barbara Murray Barbara Ann Murray (27 September 1929 – 20 May 2014) was an English actress. Murray was most active in the 1940s and 1950s as a fresh-faced leading lady in many British films such as ''Passport to Pimlico'' (1949) and ''Meet Mr. Lucifer'' (19 ...

, Gordon Jackson and Pamela Alan. It was made at

Merton Park Studios Merton Park Studios, opened in 1929, was a British film production studio located at Long Lodge, 269 Kingston Road in Merton Park, South London. In the 1940s, it was owned by Piprodia Entertainment, Nikhanj Films and Film Producers Guild. Peter M ...

as a

second feature A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double featur ...

. Police investigate the death of a tyrannical teacher at a girls school, where any number of people might have killed the dead woman.

Cast

as Miss Shepherd * Gordon Jackson as Detective Inspector Campbell * Pamela Alan as Miss Helen Cooper * Jane Aird as Miss M. Halstead *

Beatrice Varley Beatrice Evelyn Varley (11 July 1896 – 4 July 1964) was an English actress who appeared in television and film roles between 1936 and 1964. She made her screen debut in the 1936 film ''Tomorrow We Live'' and began to portray a variety of ch ...

as Miss Hopkinson * Anne Butchart as Miss Oliphant * Imogene Moynihan as Miss Essex * Jenine Matto as Miss Stanislaus *

Sam Kydd Samuel John Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was a British-Irish actor. His best-known roles were in two major British television series of the 1960s, as the smuggler Orlando O'Connor in '' Crane'' and its sequel ''Orlando''. He als ...

as Sergeant Harvey * Robert Long as Mr. Lawley * Nina Parry as Mary * Stanley Rose as Inspector Burgess * Enid Stewart as Mrs. White * Julie Stewart as Mrs. White * Sandra Whipp as Brenda * Pauline Winter as Mrs. Lawley

References

Bibliography

* Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The British 'B' Film''. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

External links

* 1953 films British mystery films 1950s mystery films Films set in England Merton Park Studios films British black-and-white films 1950s English-language films 1950s British films {{1950s-UK-film-stub