It Happened in Soho
1948 film
It Happened in Soho is a 1948 British black and white low-budget B film directed by Frank Chisnell and starring Richard Murdoch and Henry Oscar. A reporter trails a multiple killer.
Plot
A girl is murdered in Soho, and reporter Bill Scott is on the trail of the killer. Bill meets country girl Susan Marsh, and shows her Soho by night, taking her to a café and introducing her to Julie, and artist Paul Sayers. Julie offers Susan a place to stay. Later Julie is found murdered, and near her body is Bill's lucky charm. Susan assumes Bill is the killer, but it is in fact Paul, who is about to kill Susan when Inspector Carp arrives just in time. Bill and Susan marry.
Cast
Richard Murdoch as Bill Scott
Henry Oscar as Inspector Carp
Paul Demel as Angelo
John Bailey as Paul Sayers
Patricia Raine as Susan Marsh
Eunice Gayson as Julie
Rose Howlett as Lulu
Dennis Harkin as Johnnie (as Denis Harkin)
Alexander Kardan as the communist (as Alexander Kardin)
Morris Sweden as the cockney
Critical reception
In contemporary reviews Kine Weekly said "Its principal characters are a light-hearted and light-headed crime reporter, a girl just up from the country, a wise old 'cop' and an elusive strangler, but their movements are so clumsy that few laughs and less thrills spring from the exchanges. ...
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