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5.8

Lady in the Fog

NR·1952·77m

Mystery

Summary

In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.

Cast

Cesar Romero

Philip 'Phil' O'Dell

Bernadette O'Farrell

Heather McMara

Lois Maxwell

Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick

Geoffrey Keen

Christopher Hampden

Campbell Singer

Inspector Rigby

Alastair Hunter

Det. Sgt. Reilly

Mary Mackenzie

Marilyn Durant

Lloyd Lamble

Martin Sorrowby

Frank Birch

Boswell - Airport Manager

Wensley Pithey

Sid - Bartender

Reed De Rouen

Connors

Peter Swanwick

Smithers

Richard Johnson

Danny McMara - Hit-and-Run Victim

Bill Fraser

Sales Manager

Lisa Lee

Donna Devore

Lionel Harris

Allan Mellon

Betty Cooper

Dr. Campbell - Asylum Superintendent

Clare James

Miss Andrews - Asylum Receptionist

Katie Johnson

Mad Mary - Old Inmate at Murder Scene

Jacques Cey

Head Waiter

Jean Bayless

Delmont Switchboard Operator (as Jean Bayliss)

Stuart Nichol

Steve

Marguerite Brennan

Desk Clerk at Heather's Apartment

Robert Adair

John - Film Director

Terry Carney

Minor Role (uncredited)

Robert Dorning

Airline Reservations Clerk (uncredited)

Josephine Douglas

Nurse at Glenhaven Sanatorium (uncredited)

Christina Forrest

Minor Role (uncredited)

Jack Howarth

Minor Role (uncredited)

Robert Moore

Minor Role (uncredited)

Stuart Saunders

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Dorinda Stevens

Girl at Film Studio (uncredited)

Hazel Sutton

Minor Role (uncredited)

Larry Taylor

Hospital Attendant (uncredited)

James Ure

Airline Reservations Clerk (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Sam Newfield

Screenplay

Orville H. Hampton

Story

Lester Powell

Reviews

Geronimo1967

December 25, 2022

Cesar Romero ("O'Dell") is a visiting American sitting in a bar in London making a drink that wouldn't have looked out of place in Merlin's laboratory. He and the barman are trying to encourage the sceptical "Peggy" (Lois Maxwell) to partake when a police man enters the bar to use the phone to report an hit and run accident outside. She is expecting her brother - could he be the victim? Well it turns out he was, and now she and "O'Dell" determine to find out whether or not it was an accident and to get to the bottom of things. The mystery element of this is all a little procedural, but there is a bit of chemistry between Romero and Maxwell; there is quite a fun sub-plot between the American and his travel agent "Boswell" (Frank Birch) who is trying to repatriate him despite a pea-soup fog at the airport, and Geoffrey Keen finds himself with a more substantial part to deliver as the suspicious "Hampden". The aforementioned fog and the creepy Ivor Slaney score also contribute well to this by-the-numbers, but quite passable crime-noir.