Murder at the Windmill

Murder at the Windmill - 1949 | 59 mins | Drama, Musical | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Val Guest.
Producer: Daniel M. Angel and Nat Cohen.
Script: Val Guest.
Cinematography: Bert Mason.
Art Direction: Bernard Robinson.
Original Music: Ronald Bridges, Bill Currie, Val Guest, Philip Martell and Charles Rose.

The Cast

Garry Marsh - Detective Inspector
Jon Pertwee - Sergeant
Jack Livesey - Vivian Van Damm
Eliot Makeham - Gimpy
Jimmy Edwards - Jimmy
Diana Decker - Frankie
Peter Butterworth - Police Constable

Plot Synopsis

Dated whodunit with nostalgic musical numbers filmed partly on location at the famed theatre with its proud 'We Never Closed' slogan. The films murder plot is just a pretext for director Val Guest to film a sequence of Revudeville routines – the most memorable of these being Jimmy Edwards cringe worthy comedy act.

At London's risqué Windmill Theatre, after the curtain has come down on Friday nights last show a man is discovered shot dead in the stalls. The police deduce the fatal shot came from the stage. The Detective Inspector (Garry Marsh) and his assistant (Jon Pertwee) order the whole show to be rerun so they can stage a reconstruction of the murder. Suspicion soon falls on leading man Donald (Donald Clive), whose girlfriend Patsy (Jill Anstey) was being pestered by the dead man.