Murder by Proxy
Murder by Proxy – 1953 | 87 mins | Thriller | B&W
Plot Synopsis
Grim and gritty thriller. A hard-up American drunk, Casey (Dane Clark), wakes up one morning to find himself accused of murder after accepting £500 to marry heiress Phyllis Brunner (Belinda Lee), then blacking out. Her father has been killed; shortly afterwards her fiancée, Lance (Andrew Osborn), joins him. Casey recovers his senses to discover that the ‘bride’s’ mother (Betty Ann Davies) is the killer.
Production Team
Terence Fisher: Director
J Elder Wills: Art Direction
Walter J Harvey: Cinematography
Maurice Rootes: Film Editing
Philip Leakey: Makeup Department
Ivor Slaney: Original Music
Michael Carreras: Producer
Richard H Landau: Script
Bill Salter: Sound Department
George Burgess: Sound Department
Cast
Dane Clark: Casey Morrow
Belinda Lee: Phyllis Brunner
Betty Ann Davies: Alicia Brunner
Eleanor Summerfield: Maggie Doone
Andrew Osborn: Lance Gordon
Harold Lang: Travis
Jill Melford: Miss Nardis
Alvys Mahen: Lita Huntley
Alfie Bass: Ernie
Michael Golden: Inspector Johnson
