On the same VCI "Hammer Film Noir" disc as "The Glass Tomb", is "Paid To Kill" (1954). This film, also known as "Five Days", is another unlikely venture for the credited Montgomery Tully. It is also excitingly photographed (for around half its length anyway) in true noir style by Jimmy Harvey.
This one doesn't have the same all-pervasive noir mood of "The Glass Tomb", but mostly reserves these effects for the action scenes.
On the other hand, the premise, whilst somewhat outlandish, is a rather suspenseful one, even though those of us who are used to the twists and turns of the average whodunit, will probably guess the solution.
Nonetheless, the acting is solid, especially from delightfully seedy Paul Carpenter in one of his best roles ever as the "friend in need", and from Thea Gregory as the glamorous wife.
Dane Clark walks through his role as the distracted company director with his usual assurance, while Howard Marion Crawford has a ball as an eccentric Egyptologist.
Newspaperman, film critic and novelist Paul Tabori wrote the suspenseful story and screenplay.
This one doesn't have the same all-pervasive noir mood of "The Glass Tomb", but mostly reserves these effects for the action scenes.
On the other hand, the premise, whilst somewhat outlandish, is a rather suspenseful one, even though those of us who are used to the twists and turns of the average whodunit, will probably guess the solution.
Nonetheless, the acting is solid, especially from delightfully seedy Paul Carpenter in one of his best roles ever as the "friend in need", and from Thea Gregory as the glamorous wife.
Dane Clark walks through his role as the distracted company director with his usual assurance, while Howard Marion Crawford has a ball as an eccentric Egyptologist.
Newspaperman, film critic and novelist Paul Tabori wrote the suspenseful story and screenplay.