Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

trimmerb1234 This is a rather better than average B feature, set in a modest respectable middle-class '30s-'50s suburb of houses with tidy front gardens, net curtain and a nosy neighbour.A bored middle-aged housewife notices some odd occurrences at her neighbours house - a scream, the sudden departure of the wife, the return of the husband, his curious activities throughout the day - carrying bags of cement indoors, carrying a large tin bath also indoors. All very suspicious. She consults her husband who knows her habits and reassuringly dismisses her concerns.So far precisely an episode of One Foot in the Grave - the type of neighbourhood, bizarre happenings with very dark interpretations.Only the dark events are not imagined but completely real - as the audience to this crime-mystery know in the first few minutes. The happenings are completely beyond the imaginings of the suspicious neighbour.I didn't guess the final revelation. Although it is fairly engrossing, a better production would have ramped up the tension and made the wife's manner less even as the conclusion approached.My lasting impression is that One Foot in the Grave, now an established comedy classic was a genius comic twist on this fairly ordinary original. Or perhaps I am just imagining it?

kidboots "Dilemma" is a beaut little crime gem penned by Pip and Jane Baker who went on to write scripts for "Dr. Who". Surprisingly it had only a limited initial release (and I do mean limited) in Yorkshire and has only been shown once on English TV - it really deserves to be better known. The sparse showings may have had something to do with the fact that none of the players went on to anything of importance, although Ingrid Hafner was in the original series of "The Avengers" but left the show when offered the role in "Dilemma" (silly girl, it was a pretty thankless role with her only appearing at the beginning and at the end) and Peter Halliday whose face is familiar through countless TV shows.Hitting you initially with an upbeat jazz score, this nifty but bizarre little thriller has loving husband coming home after work only to discover a man's body in the bathroom and his wife missing. (She has already been seen fleeing from the house in disarray over the credits). He is a teacher, just starting on holidays ("you lucky teachers with all your holidays" says busy body neighbour Mrs. Jones whose peering into windows and popping around with cups of tea give the movie some of it's thrills)!! Everything points to Jean (Hafner) being the murderess as he finds a bloodied apron and a broken glass in the laundry basket, so of course he does the sensible thing - no, not call the police!! but dispose of the body under some loose floorboards in the living room.In the middle of all this his mother comes around and their heart to heart proves there may be a few chinks in Harry's "idyllic" marriage. His mother has never approved of Jean and what's more she doesn't approve of Harry much either citing that at 32 his father was already a headmaster while Harry is content to just plod along with no ambition.You think you know where this movie is headed but you don't - things come to a head when Harry pops into the local hardware centre to buy cement and soon after the police visit the same centre asking questions about an abandoned car and it's criminal owner, whether he had popped into the shop - it seems the shop owner hasn't always been on the up and up!!! Meanwhile Jean has been to the hospital to see about her cut hand and is now in a tizz down at the bank - she can't find her security box key (she dropped it in the garden when she fled) and she is desperate to get the box open!! The police's questions about "suspicious acting people" bring them to Harry's door and the ending is packed with accusations with the police initially loth to reveal why they are interested in this man but now revealing he is a known drug dealer who sets up housewives in well to do suburbs to act as carriers!!Bryanston Studios had a small but prestigious distribution run starting with "The Battle of the Sexes" and "The Entertainer" and ending with "The System" with Oliver Reed. It was formed by Michael Balcon from the ashes of the defunct Ealing Studios.Highly Recommended.

d_nazarian The film is enjoyable to watch.The reactions of the 60's characters to murder is fascinating, including the strange actions of the man.A classic performance of a nosy neighbour too.

ffranc Cheapo British B-picture which does not live up to its description. The initial premise is interesting enough, but any "thrills" are dissipated by the slack plotting. The "surprise" ending is signalled well before the end.