Someone at the Door

Michael Medwin and his sister, Yvonne Owen, have just inherited a large house, without the means to keep it up. Hoping to gain some notoriety to jack up the price, they and Hugh Latimer, Miss Owen's boyfriend, decide to fake a kidnapping, with Medwin as the suspect. What they don't know is that crook Garry Marsh has stolen some jewels, and his accomplice, Danny Green, have hidden in the old house. Now Green, who has been put on the owners as a rather surly factotum, is trying to figure out how to get the jewels out of the priest's hole that Medwin an Latimer have hidden them in.

It's a nice start, looking like a haunted-house comedy-crime thriller, that veers very nicely throughout, with the tone growing darker and darker, just as it should. At just under an hour, it plays like lightning. Since Francis Searle was the director, I didn't expect much, but I was surprised at how well this film version of a stage play was.