Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
Acting
Barbara Murray's ice queen composure cracking in millimeters.
Production
Maximum atmosphere from minimal sets — textbook poverty row elegance.
Director
Stephen Clarkson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gordon Jackson filmed this between his early Ealing comedies and before his iconic role as Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs.
The 1953 source novel by Stratford Davis was one of many post-war British crime stories using girls' schools as pressure cookers for repressed female desire.
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