Noose for a Lady

Noose for a Lady
Noose for a Lady
	Opening title
Directed by	Wolf Rilla
Screenplay by	Rex Rienits
Based on	novel The Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner
Produced by	Victor Hanbury
Starring	Dennis Price; Rona Anderson; Ronald Howard;
Cinematography	Walter Harvey
Edited by	Geoffrey Muller
Music by	De Wolfe
Production; company	Insignia Films
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	20 July 1953 (UK);
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Noose for a Lady is a 1953 British crime film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Dennis Price, Rona Anderson and Ronald Howard.^[2] It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.

Plot[]

The plot concerns an amateur detective Simon Gale (Price) who races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband.^[3]

Gale assembles all suspects in a single room in a large house and announces that one of them is a murderer. He then explains who is the murderer and how he reached that conclusion.

Cast[]

Dennis Price as Simon Gale
Rona Anderson as Jill Hallam
Ronald Howard as Dr. Evershed
Pamela Alan as Margaret Hallam
Melissa Stribling as Vanessa Lane
Alison Leggatt as Mrs. Langdon-Humphries
Esma Cannon as Miss Ginch
Charles Lloyd-Pack as Robert Upcott
Colin Tapley as Major Fergusson
Robert Brown as Jonas Rigg
George Merritt as Sergeant Frost
Doris Yorke as Mrs. Barratt
Gabrielle Blunt as Agnes Potter
Joe Linnane as The Prison Chaplain
Eric Messiter as The Judge
Michael Nightingale as The Barrister
Ian Wallace as The Landlord
Donald Bisset as Superintendent Shelford

Critical reception[]

TV Guide called the film "Overly chatty";^[4] Cinema Retro found it "A quaint, cliché ridden drama," concluding more positively, "yes, of course it creaks a little, but if nothing else it’s guaranteed to hold your attention for its succinct 70-minute runtime";^[5] and DVD Beaver saluted "A taut, complex whodunit with a brilliantly nerve-racking climax."^[6]