(1962) Jigsaw
MYSTERY
Adapted from the novel by Hillary Waugh, produced, co-written and directed by Val Guest which opens with a woman being strangled by a guy she calls Johnny who was lying on his bed. The very next day, a man who rents out flats, Mr. Restlin (Brian Oulton) reported that his office had been broken into with missing leases. And it is not long before viewers find a connection between the murdered woman at the opening and the missing leases. Det. Inspector Fellows (Jack Warner) is then assigned to the case with his Det. Sgt. Jim Wilks (Ronald Lewis) as his assistant, once they go into one of the flats as a result of money owing, who they then discover a dead body hidden inside a trunk. At first, viewers are being told that the rented flat where the body was found was rented to a Mr John Campbell.
And it was not until the 50 minute mark is when the got their first break in the case as soon as they uncovered their first solid name of Joan Simpson as the John Campbell name never went anywhere, or that it did not lead to anything.
Based on an actual incident according to imdb "... the case of Patrick Mahon, who murdered his pregnant lover Emily Kaye near Eastbourne in 1924", except that by watching the movie, it never really lead to anything until after the 50 minute mark, and although the movie takes place during that time, I can't stop thinking the movie may have been resolved much faster if a criminal sketch artist was brought in.
Adapted from the novel by Hillary Waugh, produced, co-written and directed by Val Guest which opens with a woman being strangled by a guy she calls Johnny who was lying on his bed. The very next day, a man who rents out flats, Mr. Restlin (Brian Oulton) reported that his office had been broken into with missing leases. And it is not long before viewers find a connection between the murdered woman at the opening and the missing leases. Det. Inspector Fellows (Jack Warner) is then assigned to the case with his Det. Sgt. Jim Wilks (Ronald Lewis) as his assistant, once they go into one of the flats as a result of money owing, who they then discover a dead body hidden inside a trunk. At first, viewers are being told that the rented flat where the body was found was rented to a Mr John Campbell.
And it was not until the 50 minute mark is when the got their first break in the case as soon as they uncovered their first solid name of Joan Simpson as the John Campbell name never went anywhere, or that it did not lead to anything.
Based on an actual incident according to imdb "... the case of Patrick Mahon, who murdered his pregnant lover Emily Kaye near Eastbourne in 1924", except that by watching the movie, it never really lead to anything until after the 50 minute mark, and although the movie takes place during that time, I can't stop thinking the movie may have been resolved much faster if a criminal sketch artist was brought in.