Before I Wake

1955

1h 16m

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4.6/10

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A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

Directors

Albert S. Rogell

Writers

Brett Halliday(novel by)

Robert Westerby(screenplay by)

Stars

Mona Freeman

Jean Kent

Maxwell Reed

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April Haddon

Florence Haddon

Michael Elder

Mr. Driscoll

Elsie

Dr. Elder

Police sergeant

Mrs. Harrison

Jack Storey

Harry

Taxi driver

Station master

Parson

Dr. Elder's receptionist

Directors

Albert S. Rogell

Writers

Brett Halliday(novel by)

Robert Westerby(screenplay by)

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6/10

Though it's all entirely predicable, this, I still quite enjoyed it. "April" (Mona Freeman) returns home for the funeral of her father who was tragically killed in a boating accident. Her stepmother "Florence" (Jean Kent) shows all the outward signs of sympathy, but as the details of her father's death emerge, "April" beings to smell a rat. Things are only compounded when the reading of her father's will doesn't quite deliver what was expected! Is "Mona" just an hopeless paranoiac or might there really be danger? It's all just a little to rushed and convenient at the end, but the story is quite menacingly delivered by a jobbing cast rattling through a simple story of greed. Maxwell Reed features sparingly but adds very little to what is really a film about two strong women, some cigarettes and a few bottles of VSOP.

Geronimo196729 May, 2024