Spotlight on a Murderer 1961 123movies

#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count’s money. Very upsetting indeed, all the more as they are required to keep up the Kéraudren estate in the meantime. To collect money, nephews and nieces organize a Son et Lumière show at the manor while busily looking for the missing corpse. But, unexpectedly, they get killed in turns. Murders or accidents? Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline and his cousin Edwige investigate and finally succeed in exposing the culprit. And, the count’s body being found by chance, all goes back to normal.
Plot: An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count’s body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count’s body.
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Reviews:

A decidedly minor affair
Closer to Agatha Christie than to Boileau-Narcejac who wrote the original story and collaborated with Franju on the screenplay, “Spotlight on a Murderer” is a decidedly minor affair, entertaining for what it is but unlikely to set the cinematic world on fire. For starters, it’s got a fairly ridiculous plot, (even Christie would have balked at this one); an old count, about to die, hides himself away in a secret room in his chateau so that his relatives won’t find his body and will have to wait 5 years for their inheritance. Naturally the corpses soon start piling up. Poiret or Miss Marple would have sorted it out in no time.

Passable Murder Mystery Helped Greatly By Fine Cast
“Spotlight On A Murderer” is a second rate detective story with a first rate French cast. The story deals with a count whose only asset seems to be his massive stone castle. Top billed Pierre Brasseur plays the count and he has a hit and run part, appearing for a total of maybe three minutes and not doing much besides taking a seat in a concealed room and dying.

For me, the big plus of this movie is Dany Saval’s performance as the girlfriend of one of the potential heirs of the count. She has a real personality. Maurice Jarre composed the music for this movie and the score is blah, no match to his score for 1964’s “Weekend at Dunkirk”. Jarre later married Saval, in 1965 and, when they split two years later, he gave her the rights to his movie score for “Doctor Zhivago” as a divorce settlement. A great deal for her.

As to this movie, I watched the Arrow Blu-ray disc of the movie, a Gaumont restoration that has excellent image quality. At the end, when the killer is on the run across across the castle grounds, Edwige (Marianne Koch) tells Saval’s movie boyfriend to shoot the killer in the leg. A shot through a high tower window to a moving target at least 150 feet away using a smooth bore single shot antique pistol. With a crowd of visitors to the castle next to the target. Naturally, the shot hits the killer in the leg.

If your time is limited, try to see “Weekend At Dunkirk” instead of this run of the mill mystery. Maurice Jarre’s score for that movie is great and director Henri Verneuil was on a roll in the 1960s directing movies, hitting his peak with 1969’s “The Sicilian Clan”.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director Georges Franju
Writer Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Georges Franju
Actors Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
Country France
Awards N/A
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Sound Mix Mono
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm