Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955)

Miss Tulip Stays the Night: Directed by Leslie Arliss. With Diana Dors, Patrick Holt, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge. A crime writer and his wife go for a break to a country cottage. They receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for the night. In the morning there is a dead body in the house.

“Patrick Holt and Diana Dors arrive at their new home in the country. He plans to start his new murder mystery, when in stalks Cicely Courtneidge demanding a room for the night and giving orders. The next morning, the couple discovers her dead in an armchair. PC Jack Hulbert shows up, followed by Inspector Joss Ambler.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s the first movie with Hulbert and Miss Courtneidge in more than a decade, and this comedy-mystery is directed by Leslie Arliss at farce speeds. Unfortunately, thereu0026#39;s little in it witty and very funny once Miss Courtneidge is reduced to a corpse. Holt and Miss Dors are a bit too sedate, Ambler is grouchy, and A.E. Matthews shows up at the beginning; heu0026#39;s funny, but then he vanishes, irrelevant to the plot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s a common issue with comedies that have a story to tell: the laughs are in the beginning, then the fun is abandoned in favor of the plot. Itu0026#39;s a fair mystery, and itu0026#39;s good to see Hulbert and Miss Courtneidge on the screen, but despite some bits and bobs, itu0026#39;s dull.”