Model for Murder

Keith Andes - David Martens
Hazel Court - Sally Meadows
Jean Aubrey - Annabelle Meadows
Michael Gough - Kingsley Beauchamp
Julia Arnall - Diana Leigh
Patricia Jessel - Mme. Dupont
Peter Hammond - George
Edwin Richfield - Costard, Chauffeur
Alfred Burke - Podd

Mundane second-feature thriller that fails to excite despite the best efforts of a spirited cast.

Searching in London, David Martens (Keith Andes), an American Merchant Marine officer recently docked in Liverpool, befriends fashion designer’s assistant Sally Meadows (Hazel Court) in the hope she will give him a guided tour of the capital and introduce him to his late brother’s girlfriend Diana Leigh (Julia Arnall).

David and Diana meet later that evening at The Jamaica, a nightclub frequented by the fashion house glitterati. Meanwhile, all is not well in the world of fashion and Diana’s employer, Kingsley Beauchamp (Michael Gough), has paid two crooks, Costard (Edwin Richfield) and Podd (Alfred Burke), to rob a jewel-encrusted diamond necklace from the company safe. Diana is still wearing a dress she has spent the day modelling, and when returns to the showroom to replace it, she disturbs the two crooks who subsequently murder her with a knife when Diana recognises one of the crooks is Beauchamp’s chauffeur; Costad.

A passing Martens observes Diana with a knife in her back through a window, but when he forces his way into the fashion house the crooks knock him unconscious, and frame him for both the murder and jewellery theft. With the help of Sally, Martens manages to keep himself out of jail by tracking down the real crooks departing from London Airport with the stolen diamonds.