Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Wordiezett So much average

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

JohnHowardReid Directed by JOHN GUILLERMIN. Screenplay by Jonathan Latimer. From the play by Philip Mackie. Assistant director: Ronald Spencer. Director of photography: Wilkie Cooper. Art director: Tony Masters. Film editor: Gerry Hambling. Production manager: Jack Hicks. Camera operator: Hughie Wilson. Set continuity: Yvonne Richards. Sound recordists: F. Ryan, Bob Jones, John Aldred. Sound editor: Teddy Darvas. Make-up: Roy Ashton. Hairdresser: Bill Griffiths. Wardrobe supervisor: Bridget Sellers. Music composed by Mischa Spoliansky; conducted by Lambert Williamson; played by Johnny Dankworth and His Orchestra. Produced by Jack Clayton. A Romulus Film. A Columbia Picture.A Romulus Production. London trade show: June 1958. No New York opening. U.S. release through Columbia: September 1958. U.K. release through Columbia: 3 August 1958. Australian release: 7 May 1959. 86 minutes.SYNOPSIS: An American film producer is accused of murdering his star. Setting: the French Riviera.COMMENT: Crisp thriller screen-played by Jonathan Latimer (who worked with director John Farrow on such classics as The Big Clock, Beyond Glory, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Alias Nick Beal, Plunder of the Sun, etc., and also authored interesting mystery novels on his own account, featuring private detective Bill Crane) with an interesting movie-making background on the French Riviera. Splendid performances by the principals and taut, inventive direction by John Guillerman keep the viewer almost constantly on the edge of his or her seat. Production credits are first-rate.

bkoganbing Though leading man Stewart Granger has occasionally played the heel in a few films, the greatest screen cad of all George Sanders dominates this film playing a very wounded cad. He's a publisher of religious textbooks married to that most unlikely of mates, the voluptuous movie star Gianna Marie Canale who has used her feminine wiles to get to the top of the film business. Her latest conquest is producer Stewart Granger who is a bit down in the mouth since wife Donna Reed left him.The Whole Truth has Sanders planning a most methodical revenge against his wife and against Granger whom he sees as the pinnacle of all the men Canale cheated on him with. Sanders gives an academy award winning performance, even better than the Oscar winning one he got for All About Eve with the French police.Though The Whole Truth is far from All About Eve it's a decent enough thriller with Hollywood's greatest cad dominating the proceedings.

gordonl56 Stewart Granger plays a film producer making a film in the south of France. Causing him no end of trouble on his production is the film's female star, Gianna Maria Canale. Canale is loud, obnoxious and a pain in everyone's ass. She is also having a fling with Stewart while his wife, Donna Reed was off in England. Granger pleads with Canale to behave herself and get the film finished. She responds with a bit of blackmail, continue the affair or she will tell Granger's wife. What is he to do? That night while Granger is having a party, George Sanders puts in an appearance. He introduces himself as a police inspector and informs Granger that Canale has been found murdered. Does Granger know anything about it? "No, No not a thing!" Sanders leaves and Granger jumps in his car and roars off to make sure that he left nothing at their love-nest. He returns to the party and who should appear but Canale, alive and well. What the hell is going on? It seems that Canale is Sanders wife, and now Sanders plans a little payback. Of course Canale does get murdered and Granger is the number one suspect. There are plenty of red herrings, twists and turns and the like in this one. Great back and forth between Sanders and Granger. Good time-waster.(b/w)

Single-Black-Male It's a pity that Granger wasn't teamed up against George Sanders in the same way that he was against James Mason. I think their standoff would have made a good fight sequence in a swashbuckler like 'Moonfleet'.A good yarn, but disposable after the first watch.