Rent Pit of Darkeness (1961)
3.0 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 18min
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- Synopsis:
- When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm is found unconscious on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered, and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house has been cleverly opened and the contents missing. So with the help of his wife, he sets to uncover the truth.
- Actors:
- William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green, Bruce Beeby, Humphrey Lestocq, Anthony Booth, Nanette Newman, Michael Balfour, Jacqueline Jones, Ronnie Hall, Edmund Bailey, Dave Clark, Elizabeth Ellis, Peter Fontaine, Frank Hawkins, Peter Hempson, Rick Huxley, George McGrath
- Directors:
- Lance Comfort
- Producers:
- Lance Comfort
- Writers:
- Lance Comfort, Hugh McCutcheon
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of Pit of Darkeness
Budget Thriller. - Pit of Darkeness review by Steve
Lance Comfort again fashions a compelling suspense film out of a meagre budget. There are no stars, no elaborate lighting arrangements. The set decoration is dismayingly threadbare and flimsy. And yet this is an unusually absorbing B feature.
And Comfort scripts a compelling premise from a forgotten novel by an obscure writer. A suave, married suburbanite (William Franklyn) works for a firm which designs safes for banks. He staggers home after an assault in a bomb site, to find he has been missing for three weeks and has no memory of where he has has been.
And the detective hired by his wife (Moira Redmond) to find him has turned up dead. Which is an excellent film noir set up! Pure Cornell Woolrich. Sadly there's no money for expressionist visuals. Franklyn lacks real star charisma, but he is still fine as a noirish everyman caught up in a plot beyond his comprehension.
Nigel Green stands out among the support cast of likely suspects, though it's more memorable to encounter Anthony Booth as the head of the criminal gang! The easily listening soundtrack isn't typical of this genre but fits in with a key plot feature. Comfort has been reappraised as a key director of British Bs. This isn't his best, but still an effective thriller.
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