In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.
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Henri Vidon
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- (as Henry Vidon)
- Director
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- TriviaAt 51m 50s - the word "pixelated", but this is a word that was coined long after this film was made - when computer screens came along having "pixels", a contraction of picture elements. Actually, they say "pixilated", meaning behaving in a pixie-like manner, whimsical, mildly insane, bewildered.
- GoofsAgnes claims she saw someone walking on the road, and the other characters claim the road was not visible from her window - while the camera shows the road from her window just beyond her front gate.
- Quotes
[Last lines]
Hotel Clerk: Will you be coning back again Mr Madison ?
John Madison: [Looks across to Vicky and smiles] Oh I'll be visiting again quite soon I think.
[They turn and leave]
Hotel Clerk: [Says to himself] Well, things certainly move quickly when there's a stranger in town.
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A Stranger in Town
When a composer if found dead in his home in a sleepy English village, the coroner puts it down to suicide. Now nobody quite knows just why this man would have taken his own life and when his American journalist pal "Madison" (Alex Nicol) shows up, he decides to look into things and is soon highly suspicious as he gradually realises that the rose tinted windows and perfectly manicured lawns hide tensions amongst the outwardly butter-wouldn't-melt townsfolk. There are plenty of clues for us all here, the odd red herring and he even manages to pick a fight as he eventually manages to convince "Insp. Powell" (John Horsley) that this wasn't simply just the desperate, final, act of an eccentric musician. It features a workmanlike, rather than stellar, cast of British stalwarts - Mona Washbourne ("Agnes") is always reliable, as is Charles Lloyd-Pack and there's even a spot for Arthur Lowe before the denouement comes a bit from left-field. It's an interesting contrast this film - almost like a precursor of the hugely successful "Midsomer Murders" series: what really does go on behind the chintz curtains. The writing is distinctly bland - and Nicol is really just eye candy, but it is still a decent little mystery that is worth a gander.
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- Feb 13, 2023
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- Also known as
- Stranger in Town
- Filming locations
- Ye Olde Greene Manne pub, London Road, Batchworth Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK(John talks to Mrs Woodham as she gets off the bus)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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