''The Murder Game'' is a 1965 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 ...
starring
Ken Scott
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,
Marla Landi
Marla Landi, Lady Dashwood (born Marcella Teresa Scarafia in 1933, Turin, Italy) is an Italian-born British film actress and television presenter.
Career
Landi's major roles included '' Across the Bridge'' (1957), '' Dublin Nightmare'' (1958), ...
,
Trader Faulkner
Ronald "Trader" Faulkner (7 September 1927 – 14 April 2021) was an Australian actor, raconteur and flamenco dancer, best known for his work in the UK on the stage and television.
Early life
Faulkner was born in Manly, Australia, the son of ...
,
Conrad Phillips
Conrad Philip Havord (13 April 1925 – 13 January 2016), known professionally as Conrad Phillips, was an English television and film actor. He is best known for playing William Tell in the adventure series ''The Adventures of William Tell'' (1 ...
and directed by
Sidney Salkow
Sidney Salkow (June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000) was an American film director
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. The film was distributed by
Twentieth Century-Fox
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.
It was the last film directed by Sidney Salkow.
Plot
While on his honeymoon, a husband discovers the plan of his bigamous wife with her first husband to murder him for his money and he plans counter measures to throw the blame on them.
Cast
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Ken Scott
Ken Scott (born 20 April 1947) is a British record producer and engineer known for being one of the five main engineers for the Beatles, as well as engineering Elton John, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Duran Duran, the Jef ...
as Steve Baldwin
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Marla Landi
Marla Landi, Lady Dashwood (born Marcella Teresa Scarafia in 1933, Turin, Italy) is an Italian-born British film actress and television presenter.
Career
Landi's major roles included '' Across the Bridge'' (1957), '' Dublin Nightmare'' (1958), ...
as Marie Aldrich
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Trader Faulkner
Ronald "Trader" Faulkner (7 September 1927 – 14 April 2021) was an Australian actor, raconteur and flamenco dancer, best known for his work in the UK on the stage and television.
Early life
Faulkner was born in Manly, Australia, the son of ...
as Chris Aldrich
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Conrad Phillips
Conrad Philip Havord (13 April 1925 – 13 January 2016), known professionally as Conrad Phillips, was an English television and film actor. He is best known for playing William Tell in the adventure series ''The Adventures of William Tell'' (1 ...
as Peter Shanley
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Gerald Sim
Gerald Grant Sim (4 June 1925 – 11 December 2014) was an English television and film actor who is perhaps best known for having played the Rector in ''To the Manor Born''.
Career
Sim was born in Liverpool, Lancashire and made over a hundred ...
as Larry Landstrom
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Duncan Lamont
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as Inspector Telford
* Peter Bathurst as Dr. Knight
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Ballard Berkeley
Ballard Blascheck (6 August 1904 – 16 January 1988), known professionally as Ballard Berkeley, was an English actor of stage and screen. He is best remembered for playing Major Gowen in the British television sitcom ''Fawlty Towers''.
Life an ...
as Sir Colin Chalmers
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Victor Brooks as Rev Francis Hood
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Dyan Cannon
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* John Dunbar as Parkhill
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Gretchen Franklin
Gretchen Franklin (7 July 1911 – 11 July 2005) was an English actress and dancer with a career in show business spanning over 70 years. She was born in Covent Garden, Central London. She played Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC 1 soap ope ...
as Landlady
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Clement Freud
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was a German-born British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.
The son of Ernst L. Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement moved to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany as ...
as Croupier
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Jimmy Gardner as Arthur Gillett
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Rosamund Greenwood
Rosamund Mary Greenwood (12 June 1907 – 15 July 1997) was a British actress who was active on screen from 1935 until 1990.
Biography
After training at London's Central School, she was on stage from the late 1920s. Her theatre work included sta ...
as Mrs. Potter
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Derek Partridge
Derek Partridge (born 29 June 1935) is a British television presenter, spokesman and voice-over artist, formerly a film and TV actor.
Partridge's father was a diplomat in the British Foreign Service.
In the 1960s, Partridge appeared in a nume ...
as Police Sergeant
* John Richmond as Prosecutor
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Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton Ball (15 January 192116 March 2013), professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was known for playing Captain Peacock in ''Are You Being Served?'' and its sequel ''Grace & Favour'' (''Are You Being Served? ...
as Radio Announcer
References
External links
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1965 films
British crime drama films
Films directed by Sidney Salkow
1960s English-language films
1960s British films
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