The Boulting Brothers had a long and fairly distinguished career which stretched from the 30s into the 70s.They started,as did many technicians of that era in quota quickies.This film is a whodunit played out during the course of a Coroners Inquest. Herbert Lomas plays the rather tetchy coroner,who being wound up by the ever present police officer,wants to thwart the eager eyed barrister,played by Hay Petrie from taking the spotlight off of him.Eventually,mainly through the efforts of petrie we discover who killed the deceased the subject of the inquest.It does become rather convoluted and slightly difficult to follow.Elizabeth Allen maintains her silence almost to the end,which is rather unbelievable when her silence is likely to lead her straight to the Old Bailey.No better or worse than many similar films of the same genre.
Review of Inquest
