The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1961
The Third Alibi
Directed by
Montgomery Tully
A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
The story
A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
Cast
Laurence PayneNorman Martell
Patricia DaintonHelen Martell
Jane GriffithsPeggy Hill
Edward UnderdownDr. Peter Murdoch
John ArnattSupt. Ross
Humphrey LestocqSimmons, the Producer
Lucy GriffithsMiss Potter
Olive MilbourneMrs. Booth
Arthur HewlettMarshall
Annette KerrCinema cashier
Cleo LaineCleo
Dudley MooreRehearsal Pianist (Uncredited)
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Sylvia DavisCinema sales girl (uncredited)
Max FaulknerDet. Sgt. Fred Smith (uncredited)
Garard GreenPatrol car policeman (uncredited)
Arthur HowellP.C. Williams (uncredited)
Richard NellerSleeping Man in Theater (uncredited)
Pat RyanDetective Examining Tape-Recorder (uncredited)
Stuart SaundersCinema manager (uncredited)
Arthur SkinnerDet. Sgt. Carter (uncredited)
John TathamDetective / Fingerprints Officer (uncredited)
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