Review of Murder Can Be Deadly

This is one of the later efforts of Mancunian films.Unfortunately the plot is underdeveloped ,cliched and full of holes.A big problem is that Kenneth Griffiths,a fine comedy actor,exudes about as much menace as Mickey Mouse.So any menace he exudes is merely in the script not in the actual film.Having stabbed his victim he leaves the knife in the body.Then when he is found the student takes the knife out of the dead body leaving his fingerprints all over the knife.To add to further disbelief Fraser manages to convince him that if he doesn't help dispose of the body the police will be told that he was the murderer. The climax is almost as unreal.The pair are chased by Griffiths over what looks like sand dunes.Griffiths shoots Frasr,runs out of bullets and drops his gun to surrender to the police.Rather tame and anti climatic like much of this film.