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Crappy film

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

MURDER AT 3AM is a short and cheap British crime film, directed by the one and only Francis Searle - a man who made more low budget films than any other, seemingly. I wonder what he would have done with a real budget? This stolid little film is notable only for featuring a lead role for Dennis Price, one of the biggest name stars to appear in one of Searle's films.The story is about a serial killer on the loose who makes a habit of murdering women on the street at precisely 3 am. The police desperately search for patterns and soon discover links to a local shipyard and gradually - very gradually - they work to bringing the murderer to justice.Sadly, MURDER AT 3AM just isn't very good as a crime film. The crime aspects are kept limited and the police procedural stuff is by rote. Price can do nothing with his part and only Leonard Sharp shines as the booze-addled old skipper who helps to solve the crime. The finale features a silly plot twist which is impossible to take seriously.

Dennis Price stars as a Scotland Yard police inspector who with sidekick Sergeant Rex Garner gets an assignment to find out who is doing a series of murders on women coming home from nightclubs in and around three o'clock in the morning. As it is barely an hour we don't get too much in the way of character development and no real great reason why the killer is doing what he's doing. These B films as they would be called here are called 'quota quickies' on the other side of the pond. Accent on the quickie here because this film sure has a hurried quality to it. The producers just wanted to get this one off the assembly line and before the British movie-going public in a big hurry.Complicating things is the fact that Price has a sister played by Peggy Evans who is going out with Philip Savile who comes under suspicion. Of course there's a real good reason why he's under suspicion, but I'll save that in case one wants to see it.I have to warn you that the copy I rented from Amazon has some horrible sound quality. I hope the public when they saw it in the theaters wasn't similarly inconvenienced.

A nice little British thriller with an interesting plot and a good cast but a bit rough round the edges. Look out for (well you can't really miss) the super-sized calendar on the wall in Inspector Lawton's (Dennis Price's) office displaying the date - NOV 11. It was obviously made that way to draw attention to the date, but it's a big TOO big, suggesting that Scotland Yard were all short-sighted. Character actor Leonard Sharp overdoes it somewhat as brandy-guzzling 'Old Skip' who despite his boast that he operates and lives on a boat appears to reside in an old shed. Philip Savile gets to play two parts who are supposed to be half-brothers (not twins) but look exactly the same, except one (the villain) wears a beret - so he must be up to no good! The ending is somewhat rushed, and a bit bizarre, where the bad brother is overpowered the other (even though the brother is wearing handcuffs) and then falls through a window and lands in The Thames but no one bothers to go after him. Perhaps they were planning a sequel?

This thriller has Dennis Price, unusually, playing the part of a detective. He is in charge of a case of a serial killer attacking women in the early hours of the morning, as they leave various nightclubs. Dennis Price plays Inspector Lawson who enlists the help of his best friend to help unravel the case.His friend, Edward King, played by Phillip Saville, comes up with a theory that the murderer is using the initials from various nightclubs to spell out the name of his next club.After following numerous red herrings, including suspecting the inspectors closest friend, the murderer turns out to be his friends long lost twin brother!A cheap and cheerful quickie spoilt by the overuse of organ music that belongs to the silent era.