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#crime movie; nevertheless‚ fool that i am‚ i found a blu ray copy cheap online and made the upgrade bc... well bc Babs that's why
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A young Barbara Murray stars as travelling theatrical artiste Pat Dawn, getting mixed up in murder and intrigue in Mystery Junction (1951)
#fave spotting
#barbara murray
#the power game
#lady pamela wilder
#mystery junction
#b movie
#1951
#british cinema
#sydney tafler
#michael mccarthy
#panels <3
#when network folded i picked up quite a few things I'd been holding out on but i actually already owned and had seen this quota quickie
#crime movie; nevertheless‚ fool that i am‚ i found a blu ray copy cheap online and made the upgrade bc... well bc Babs that's why
#truthfully her character doesn't have a huge amount to do beyond being Sydney Tafler's love interest (another factor was my love of Syd)
#but she does it beautifully. McCarthy doesn't give her a single closeup (fool!!!) but she does get one great scene in which she explains
#her knowledge of the villain of the film‚ recounting the harrowing fate of a young friend of hers (it's one of the best scenes in the film)
#troublingly tho.... no hats. was this pre hats? did Babs develop a hat fixation only later? or was it bc she was still a young actor at
#this point‚ she didn't feel confident in demanding an array of hats be set at her dressing room door every day (as i have chosen to imagine
#was the case later in her career). she wasn't quite a newcomer at this point (she'd had a notable role in 1949's Passport to Pimlico) but
#safe to say she wasn't quite a Star star yet (she shares top billing with Tafler here but this is in every sense a minor picture on a
#shoestring budget; no reflection on McCarthy‚ an imaginative and talented writer director who might have been destined for bigger things
#had he not died prematurely at the end of the decade)
#anyway she's here and she's lovely and she gives rotten Martin Benson a piece of her mind despite the gun in his hand
#good for you Babs! <3
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