Murder by Proxy

Murder by Proxy is a 1954 British film noir crime drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Dane Clark, Belinda Lee and Betty Ann Davies. The screenplay concerns a man who is offered money to marry a woman. It was produced by Hammer Films and shot at the company's Bray Studios in Berkshire with sets designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. It released in the United States by Lippert Pictures as Blackout. Plot Drunk and down-and-out Casey Morrow (Clark) in London is approached by a young and beautiful heiress, Phyllis Brunner (Lee), offering him much money if he will marry her. He accepts, but then wakes up the next morning in some other woman's apartment with blood on his coat from the murder of Brunner's father. Now he must unravel the mystery to clear his name, which leads him into a twisted labyrinth of encounters with various suspicious characters who seem to make his situation worse the more he learns. Cast Dane Clark as Casey Morrow Belinda Lee as Phyllis Brunner Betty Ann Davies as Mrs. Alicia Brunner Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie Doone Andrew Osborn as Lance Gordon Harold Lang as Travis / Victor Vanno Jill Melford as Miss Nardis Alvys Maben as Lita Huntley Michael Golden as Inspector Johnson Nora Gordon as Casey's mother Alfie Bass as Ernie Delphi Lawrence as Linda Arnold Diamond as Mrs. Brunner's Butler Cleo Laine as Singer Olive Sloane as Landlady Production The film was based on a novel Murder by Proxy which was published in 1952. It was the first movie in an eight picture contact between Hammer Films and Lippert Pictures.