Eine Stadt steht vor Gericht (1957)

Eine Stadt steht vor Gericht: Directed by John Guillermin. With John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr. At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.

“The calm of prosperous Oakley Park is shattered when a local woman is found murdered. A Scotland Yard detective is called in to solve the case. He unmasks the murderer but not before another woman is killed.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enThis picture contains some of the stock characters we see in many thrillers; the woman killed just because she is sexually attractive, the detective who gets results by breaking the rules and a community of outwardly respectable people who all have their dirty little secrets. These elements could have resulted in a predictable formulaic thriller but u0026quot;Town on Trialu0026quot; is lifted onto a higher class by the writing, direction and acting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting is consistently good from the bit part players up to the stars. The two outstanding performances are given by Alec McCowen as a suspect and John Mills as the detective.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI would recommend this film to any viewer.”