Typical quota quickie from Twickenham.Murder in a country house.The police are called in.There is an obvious suspect but of course she is not the guilt party.The police inspector,Sam Livesey,father of Roger tricks the real murderer into giving himself away.At the moment the murderer is caught you have no idea what he was up to.So in the last couple of minutes the actors have to explain this.rather unsatisfactory.Filmed in typical Twickenham style.The minimum of editing and panning between characters.Actors stepping into shot to say their lines and stepping out again.Really not one of their better efforts.
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Routine murder mystery with little to enliven it
Leofwine_draca1 June 2016
Twickenham Studios must have churned out film after similar film during the mid 1930s. TANGLED EVIDENCE is no exception, it's a fairly stolid murder mystery lacking any kind of hook or angle to make it interesting or lift it above a couple of dozen others similar of note. The movie opens with a dead body on the study floor and a house full of guests and relatives, one of whom is responsible.
It takes the efforts of a typically gruff police detective to get to the bottom of things, but not before the viewer endures the usual round of dialogue-heavy back stories and half-hearted performances. Michael Shepley, the comic relief in A SHOT IN THE DARK, co-stars - and wears the same pair of glasses as in that film - but isn't as much fun here. Sadly, the identity of the murderer is almost impossible to guess given a lack of information imparted to the viewer, so you're forced to sit back while the characters in the know explain everything at the climax. It makes for a pretty dull viewing experience.
It takes the efforts of a typically gruff police detective to get to the bottom of things, but not before the viewer endures the usual round of dialogue-heavy back stories and half-hearted performances. Michael Shepley, the comic relief in A SHOT IN THE DARK, co-stars - and wears the same pair of glasses as in that film - but isn't as much fun here. Sadly, the identity of the murderer is almost impossible to guess given a lack of information imparted to the viewer, so you're forced to sit back while the characters in the know explain everything at the climax. It makes for a pretty dull viewing experience.
Classic who did what
shoneyz30 November 2020
Period Piece
lucyrfisher14 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This is the kind of drama the characters are watching in Ngaio Marsh's Enter a Murderer, her second detective story. It's interesting to see it happening before your very eyes. The acting is variable: I like the heroine, a rather solid young lady. Why is she wandering around the mansion with her eyes fixed on space? Her sister is cute, and an awful actress, but she gets by. The sinister librarian is the best actor. The murdered man is a student of Black Magic - or rather "the history of alchemy and all that", but little is made of this. The servants are vivid characters, especially the dumpy cook. The wonderful JOAN HICKSON plays the maid as moronic and adenoidal. It was a trope of the time. At least, I think it's her. The biggest star is the house - huge, and furnished with Jacobethan furniture. Every door is carved in perpendicular Gothic. The film is based on a book by Mrs. Champion de Crespigny.
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