The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson

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The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson
"The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson" (1947).jpg
English pressbook cover
Directed by Oswald Mitchell
Written byFrancis Miller
Oswald Mitchell (Additional scenes & dialogue)
Produced byGilbert Church
Starring
CinematographyS.D. Onions
Music byIsaac Snoek
Production
company
Gilbert Church Productions (as Bushey)
Distributed byAmbassador Film Productions Ltd. (UK)
Release date
  • 16 June 1947 (1947-06-16)(UK)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited 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.

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Synopsis

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.

Cast

Reception

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]

Notes

  1. The opening credits show the title as "Mysterious Mr. Nicholson".

References

  1. "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  2. "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson (1947)". Archived from the original on 5 February 2009.
  3. "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson" . The Monthly Film Bulletin . 14 (157): 3. 1 January 1947. ProQuest   1305815254.
  4. "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson" . Kine Weekly . 359 (2073): 24. 9 January 1947. ProQuest   2826261291.
  5. "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson" . Picturegoer . 16: 12. 5 June 1947. ProQuest   1771185623.