''Operation Murder'' is a 1957 British

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

. It was described by

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as "another of the multitude of inexpensive Danzinger Brothers productions, released throughout the English-speaking world by United Artists."

Premise

A scheme by two doctors to establish an alibi for a killing by switching roles in the operating theatre is foiled by the insight of a detective and the chance action of a small boy.

Cast

*Dr. Wayne -

Tom Conway Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor remembered for playing private detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, and The Saint) ...

*Dr. Bowen -

Patrick Holt Patrick Holt (31 January 1912 – 12 October 1993) was an English film and television actor. Biography Born Patrick G. Parsons in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Holt spent some of his childhood in India with his uncle, after which he was sent ...

*Pat Wayne -

Sandra Dorne Sandra Dorne (born Joan Smith; 19 June 1924 – 25 December 1992) was a British actress. Career Also known as Sandra Holt, Dorne was often known in the 1950s as the B-film Diana Dors. As a platinum blonde, she was a regular female lead ...

*Inspector Price - John Stone *Julie -

Virginia Keiley Virginia Keiley (1918–1990) was a British actress. She began her career at Gainsborough Pictures appearing in a number of glamorous but small, sometimes uncredited roles in the studio's comedies and melodramas. After the Second World War she gr ...

*Head Nurse -

Rosamund John Rosamund John (19 October 1913 – 27 October 1998), born Nora Rosamund Jones, was an English film and stage actress. Early life She was born and brought up in Tottenham in North London, the daughter of Frederick Henry Jones, a wine merchant' ...

*Sgt. Vine - Frank Hawkins *Larry Vinton - Robert Ayres *Garage Attendant - Gilbert Winfield *Harry Bright - Timothy Fitzgerald *Williams - Alastair Hunter

References

External links

* 1957 films British crime films Television shows shot at New Elstree Studios 1950s English-language films Films directed by Ernest Morris 1950s British films {{1950s-crime-film-stub