They then call in for questioning all the servants and Lynne, and she becomes the prime suspect. But the motive soon becomes clear when Fred says he drew up his brother’s will and it states that his wife gets to inherit the entire estate if the two children are deceased.īehind Lynne’s back, Cameron has the police perform an autopsy on Polly and they find enough strychnine in her to kill four horses. At first, Cameron is reluctant to believe that the very loving, prim and pretty Lynne is capable of murder. Maggie reminds Cameron that his brother died in the same way while also saying, “Don’t touch my feet.” His brother’s death was classified as caused by sleeping sickness, a virus infection, but there wasn’t an autopsy performed. In a hurry to get back to work Cameron is about to leave but the family lawyer Fred Sargent (Merrill) and his news reporter wife Maggie (McLeod) become suspicious of the way the child died, suspecting that she’s been poisoned. Stevenson, the one treating her, doesn’t understand how and wants an autopsy performed, but Lynne refuses. When Polly seems to have recovered but goes into another convulsion late at night and suddenly dies Dr. His brother recently died and his wife Lynne (Jean Peters) is taking care of Polly and her younger brother Doug, children from his former marriage. Whitney Cameron (Joseph Cotten) is the concerned uncle who rushes to the NYC hospital from his home in Boston to see how his deceased brother’s daughter Polly is doing after going into a convulsion.
Stone keeps the terse story tense despite the almost certainty that the murder suspect is indeed the obvious guilty one, but he leaves open that it is not absolutely certain who did it until the climactic last scene. Henderson), Carleton Young (Ship’s Detective Frank Connelly) Runtime: 76 Twentieth Century-Fox 1953)Ī realistic mystery story about an investigation of a child suspected of being poisoned to death by strychnine. Chief Hal Cole), Walter Sande (District Attorney John L. Stevenson), Freddy Ridgeway (Doug), Grandon Rhodes (Judge Adams), Joyce McCluskey (Nurse Brownell), Jack Kruschen (Det. Murphy cast: Joseph Cotten (Whitney Cameron), Jean Peters (Lynne), Gary Merrill (Fred), Catherine McLeod (Maggie Sargent), Mae Marsh (Anna, housekeeper), Barney Phillips (Capt.
Stone cinematographer: Leo Tover editor: William B.
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