Review of Please Murder Me (1956) by Doug C — 26 Aug 2009

â??In exactly 55 minutes, I will be dead. Murdered.â?? A great legal suspense noir in which Raymond Burr deliberately torments Angela Landsbury so that she will murder him in order to restore justice after she cons him into getting her acquitted of the murder of her husband who she killed during a fight over her affair with Burr.

Burr defends her at trial, only to learn later that she murdered her husband in cold blood and had only become involved with Burr so that he would defend her so that she could run away with a third man.

Great, tangled noir plot, with good direction and acting.