Take My Life 1947

7.2 / 10   6 vote(s)
Thriller Crime

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

Release Date 1947-05-30
Runtime 1h 19m
Directors Ronald Neame, Guy Green, George Pollock, Philip Shipway, T. Hopewell Ash, Geoffrey Woodward, Muir Mathieson
Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan
Writers Winston Graham, Margaret Kennedy, Valerie Taylor

Hugh Williams and Greta Gynt are super as the couple trying to prove that he didn't murder an old flame at her London lodgings. He is convicted largely due to a formidable prosecution from a suitably ebullient Francis L. Sullivan but she determines to find out what really happened. The odd thing is that there are no photographs of the victim; it's as if she had no recent past... Then serendipity takes a hand and Gynt happens upon a tune that takes her to Edinburgh and soon she is on the trail to the truth. Ronald Neame's first go from the director's chair and it's a suspenseful, taut film noir well worth catching up with.

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