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No Trace (1950)iMDB Rating: 6.3
Date Released : 8 September 1950
Genre : Crime, Drama
Stars : Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Dora Bryan. When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland Yard friend then invites him to help solve the case. To make matters worse, his loyal secretary also starts investigating, thinking she is helping." />
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB

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When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland Yard friend then invites him to help solve the case. To make matters worse, his loyal secretary also starts investigating, thinking she is helping.

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Contrived but smooth thriller

This is a variation on the theme in which a murderer finds himself investigating his own crime. Hugh Sinclair does well as Robert Southley, an arrogant crime novelist whom had been involved in robberies on the other side of the Atlantic decades earlier. Blackmailed by a former accomplice (Michael Brennan) he resolves to murder him. Some suspension of belief is then required. He turns up at Brennan's seedy lodgings, disguised only with a false beard and we're supposed to accept that Brennan wouldn't recognise him straight away. Then Southley's acquaintance Inspector MacDougall (John Laurie) a critical fan is coincidentally put in charge of the case and selects it as an opportunity for the know-all Southley to try his hand at some real detection. There is later some ironic commentary, intentionally or not, on some of this when Southley's perceptive and resourceful secretary Linda (Dinah Sheridan) suggests correctly how the murder was committed, only for him to patronisingly tell her that the idea is implausible.

This is an example of a crime film awarded the somewhat inaccurate label of Brit Noir in some quarters recently. With a few exceptions, notably Ken Hughes in films such as THE LONG HAUL, British film makers rarely attempted to emulate the look and atmosphere of those hardboiled American movies later to be designated as Film Noir. Though films like NO TRACE may share a few superficial elements with them, their charm today includes their period of the ordered society of immediate post-war Britain, their cheery incorruptible policemen and in this case the adorable Dinah Sheridan's plucky but vulnerable heroine. There could hardly be a greater contrast with the treacherous, morally ambivalent world of the Noirs.