Review of Please Murder Me (1956) by Jonathan M — 22 Nov 2009

This sticks right to the classic noir conventions, but does so with Angela Lansbury in a ludicrous courtroom drama where her lawyer is both her lover, a witness and a friend of the deceased (even I could call the mistrial here). The quality of the video is low and the sound is particularly bad, but I can't say that it would really be worth re-mastering.

The DVD I rented was also a double-feature with another Lansbury noir (please tell me that this is not a genre), "Life at Stake." This has all the same quality issues as the first, but here she is trying to seduce and kill her totally wooden (not in a hot way) younger co-star. What, your cottage where the climactic scene takes place has a huge door opening for no reason onto a cliff? Someone might fall out! No, wait, that could never happen...