JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s1639/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM6vcZBsr88JL6qZ9EcoJId_91eqyAwYv7nYAVTIHAe4PxztIBD7qDpbQD-1GZ8yrR0RJ3o825GNMB_WeJwqZGF7xcS-TLlgYW4JfRBhBMio9CC4sneoZtZimHouUFyhW4EhM-emNb2z9hZmZILAglP4Jn3Xpt9cFUHcSxyT77ZtfntC-TBZ9vpzwcgw/s16000/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical programmer, which is hard to believe since THE SINISTER MAN, never once living up to its name, is extremely episodic... and if this were a pilot for token constable John Bentley, here investigating a dead body in a river alongside a research center harboring scientist Patrick Allen and girlfriend Jacqueline Ellis, the show would have never been picked up...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because the story never picks up despite being filled with eclectic, random elements... from the overall two dead bodies having been karate-chopped to a falsely accused Asian man, there's no palpable suspense or intrigue in an sixty-minute mystery without thrills, and that feels like three hours... the best thing is seeing Jacqueline Ellis for over half that length, but she, like the plot-line, merely stands around going nowhere. </p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, british tv, edgar wallace, jacqueline ellis, john bentley, mystery, patrick allen, ric young, thriller

JACQUELINE ELLIS WITH PATRICK ALLEN IN 'THE SINISTER MAN'

Jacqueline Ellis in THE SINISTER MAN Year: 1961 Rating: *1/2 Another episode of EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES that also became a theatrical progra...

SYDNEY CHAPLIN STARS IN THE BRITISH FILM NOIR' CONFESSION'

<p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrR43MNPBWOqIdLxoKhuuBcjc7IERwevZjlQErwIDr_wbAl8-vX11HGm2dOda_E5TOhNeC31jOdVasvuuxYAbYi_4vXCiEEd09eucn8KbDDYXIdLHtZALp44qKptPKd1sIpWJ4JJl0q1AxueMtdJpOOMmKGF5UjPgiQvene-WN5_YoqZXEl9TVtaMK-g=s818" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="818" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrR43MNPBWOqIdLxoKhuuBcjc7IERwevZjlQErwIDr_wbAl8-vX11HGm2dOda_E5TOhNeC31jOdVasvuuxYAbYi_4vXCiEEd09eucn8KbDDYXIdLHtZALp44qKptPKd1sIpWJ4JJl0q1AxueMtdJpOOMmKGF5UjPgiQvene-WN5_YoqZXEl9TVtaMK-g=w400-h310" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for THE CONFESSION Year: 1955 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney Chaplin gets first-billing in a British Film Noir titled CONFESSION aka THE DEADLIEST SIN; the melodramatic alternate references a priest hearing the confession of a killer admitting what he's done, sort of, before he himself is killed right there and then...<br></p><p>And it's all the fault of Chaplin as prodigal son Mike Nelson, returned home from America (having no British accent left), again living with his crippled father and gorgeous sister Audrey Dalton...</p><p></p><p></p><p>She thinks big brother's as clean as the driven snow, providing what others have noticed is similar to Alfred Hitchcock's "cute niece loves her charming yet secretly vicious uncle" SHADOW OF A DOUBT as well as I CONFESS with a targeted priest, leaving Chaplin little to do but look ominous and secretive, especially after sister loses trust since her boyfriend (and both their childhood friend) is the one killed after committing a defensive murder of square-jawed Patrick Allen, who was blackmailing the suitcase-full-of-cash Chaplin in a thriller where the important side-roles die off too quick to matter, and, sadly, what began as a chance for Sydney Chaplin to shine darkly (looking more like he'd be Victor Mature's brother than Charlie Chaplin's son), the picture winds up in the hands of cop John Bentley, who... as the tail wags the dog... would have been better left on the sidelines.  </p><p><span></span></p>

audrey dalton, british film noir, fifties, john bentley, patrick allen, sydney chaplin, thriller

SYDNEY CHAPLIN STARS IN THE BRITISH FILM NOIR' CONFESSION'

Poster for THE CONFESSION Year: 1955 Rating: **1/2 Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney Chaplin gets first-billing in a British Film Noir titled...