Blackout

1954

CrimeThrillerMystery

When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.

"EXPLODES...in a sinister network of evil!"

Rating

6.024
21 votes

Popularity

1.2116

Origin & Countries

GB | en | United Kingdom

Production

Hammer Film Productions

Runtime

87 min.

Status

Released

Release: 3/19/1954

Credits

Blackout

Terence FisherDirector

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Dane ClarkCasey Morrow

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Belinda LeePhyllis Brunner

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Betty Ann DaviesMrs. Alicia Brunner

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Eleanor SummerfieldMargaret 'Maggie' Doone

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

1/3/2023

6 / 10

As was common in the fifties, a jobbing American B-lister was brought over to add a bit of box office to a mid-budget British crime thriller. This time it was Dane Clark who portrays the down at heel "Morrow". In a bar he meets the glamorous "Phyllis Brunner" (Belinda Lee) who gets him a bit drunk then offers him £500 to marry her. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he acquiesces to this perfectly reasonable demand from a women he had known for four hours (?!) but gets quite a shock when he wakes up next day, somewhat thick headed, in an artist's studio covered in blood. Whose blood? It does not take him long to discover that his brand new father-in-law was murdered less that 12 hours earlier and that he is the prime suspect. Can he fathom out what happened before the police hear - and obviously don't believe - his story? Clark is actually not bad, here, but the plot is far too unnecessarily complicated - it could easily trip over it's own cloak and stab itself with it's own dagger - and that rather robs it of any punch. It's also really quite slow, too - quite a few scenes that add little and further decelerate the story. Not bad, but too long and never something you will remember watching.

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