DEATH IN HIGH HEELS was the first film made by a fledgling Hammer Films after an eleven-year break in their filmography. It's another murder mystery adaptation of a Christianna Brand novel, following on from the success of the previous year's GREEN FOR DANGER. Sadly, this is a budget-limited production that feels rather tawdry and over-obvious, particularly for a modern viewer. The setting is a fashion shop, where the presence of some poison used for hat-cleaning leads to murder, with the twist that the wrong victim is killed. A rather uninteresting cast of characters share dialogue before a twist or two at the climax which isn't worth the wait. The best thing about this is that the running time is a mere 40-odd minutes.
Review of Death in High Heels
