The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson | |
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Directed by | Oswald Mitchell |
Written by | Francis Miller Oswald Mitchell (Additional scenes & dialogue) |
Produced by | Gilbert Church |
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Cinematography | S.D. Onions |
Music by | Isaac Snoek |
Production company | Gilbert Church Productions (as Bushey) |
Distributed by | Ambassador Film Productions Ltd. (UK) |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson [a] is a 1947 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond and Frank Hawkins. [1] [2] It was written by Francis Miller and Mitchell. The plot concerns a valuable inheritance, murder, confusions of identity, and a mysterious crime boss.
A solicitor's secretary is taking a will to a client to be altered. Nearing the address, she bumps into a stranger and after finds a body (who turns out to be the client) lying murdered. The police find a note pinned to the dead man signed by a "V.L.S.". Mr Nicholson (V.L.S.) is approached by the police and he takes up the case.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is a confused and rather dull thriller badly knit together. The acting is amateurish in the extreme, and the continuity is poor." [3]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Its plot, which hinges on the hero's striking resemblance to a crook, is unabashed 'penny dreadful, but the leading players are reasonably convincing and the direction is not lacking in resource." [4]
Picturegoer wrote: "The story is embellished with a music hall sequence, and songs, and has a certain rough robustness which makes for quite acceptable entertainment." [5]