Lady in the Fog

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Lady in the Fog
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Directed by Sam Newfield
Written byLester Powell
Orville H. Hampton
Produced by Anthony Hinds
Starring Cesar Romero
Lois Maxwell
Bernadette O'Farrell
Cinematography Walter J. Harvey
Edited by James Needs
Music by Ivor Slaney
Production
company
Distributed by Exclusive Films (UK)
Lippert Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 13 October 1952 (1952-10-13)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lady in the Fog is a 1952 British mystery film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell and Bernadette O'Farrell. It is based on a BBC serial by Lester Powell as scripted by Orville H. Hampton. [1] It was made by Lippert Productions and Hammer Films at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. It was released in the United States by Lippert under the alternative title Scotland Yard Inspector.

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Plot

In London an English woman, Heather McMara, asks for help from a visiting American writer, Philip 'Phil' O'Dell, to find out who has killed her brother, Danny, who was run over in heavy nighttime fog. Having no evidence, the police will take no action.

O'Dell and McMara visit Peggy's nightclub which Danny frequented and there learn Danny's last address. O'Dell finds Danny's hotel room has been ransacked and is knocked out by a man hiding in the room, but finds a wire recording. Among Danny's correspondence is a letter leading O'Dell to an actress, Marilyn Durant. Durant is despondent over a break-up with Danny. Durant mentions a producer, Christopher Hampden, with whom Danny had arranged a screen test for her.That too appears to be a blind alley. However, a speeding car tries to run O'Dell down, and he finds his own quarters ransacked, leading him to conclude he is onto something and he cancels his plans to leave London for the United States. He also confesses romantic feelings for McMara.

O'Dell listens to the wire recording of a distraught man recounting a garage fire he was forced to set in Gladstone which killed someone called George. O'Dell attempts to replay it for McMara, but accidentally erases the wire; nonetheless he remembers enough to pursue the lead. He learns the man killed was a George Maybrick whose partners, Christopher Hampden and Martin Sorrowby, relocated to London afterwards with Mrs. Margaret Maybrick.

O'Dell returns to Hampden who stonewalls him, but mentions that Sorrowby cracked up during the war and was in a mental hospital at the time he died, two years ago. Receiving conflicting information at the hospital, O'Dell sneaks in and learns Sorrowby is still there. Sorrowby readily admits that Margaret Maybrick made Sorroby and Hampden murder her husband; however Sorrowby also says he is insane and cannot distinguish fact from fantasy. Sorrowby slips out of the hospital, but is run down and killed by Hampden's henchman, Connors.

O'Dell tells McMara he believes her brother Danny was blackmailing Hampden. McMara believes this places O'Dell in danger. Checking a bombed building for clues, O'Dell is knocked out by an assailant. McMara is visited by nightclub owner Peggy who says she will bring her to Hampden. Peggy wraps herself in a distinctive scarf last seen on Danny's killer. It is another very foggy night and Peggy asks McMara to walk ahead with a flashlight, but the fog clears. At Hampden's, McMara learns Peggy is Margaret and married to Hampden. O"Dell arrives in time to rescue McMara. Connors and Hampden are killed and Margaret is apparently killed in a car accident, fleeing the scene. O'Dell and McMara then leave for the U.S. together. [2]

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References

  1. "Lady in the Fog". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009.
  2. "Lady in the Fog/Scotland Yard Inspector (1952)". YouTube. Retrieved 15 July 2024.