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ACTOR
Tom ConwayMila ParélyNaomi ChanceEric Pohlmann
DIRECTOR
Terence Fisher
SYNOPSICS
Blood Orange (1953) is a English movie. Terence Fisher has directed this movie. Tom Conway,Mila Parély,Naomi Chance,Eric Pohlmann are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1953. Blood Orange (1953) is considered one of the best Crime,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Blood Orange (1953) Reviews
early Hammer mystery programmer, with Tom "Falcon" Conway
No great analysis needed here...a solid mystery with Tom Conway playing a private detective, ex-FBI, named...Tom Conway! The plot involves a jewel heist in the fashion industry, a crime that eventually grows into two murders. Conway is eventually asked to drop the case, and of course there is no better way to get a movie detective to devote himself to a case then to drop him from it! This was made during the period in the early 50s when Hammer made a number of low-budget mystery programmers with American stars such as Dane Clark and Forrest Tucker and Alex Nicol and Tom Conway (although we yanks think of him as British because of the accent, any time I see a British reference to him, he's called "american star Tom Conway," no doubt because his film success was here in the US). This one is a solid piece of work, which plays much like a 50s crime TV show. By this time Conway could play a detective in his sleep, and he lends his usual touch of jaded class to the film. The supporting cast is colorful, and as always director Terence Fisher keeps things moving quickly. Recommended to mystery and/or Tom Conway fans. Nothing special or original here otherwise...
Mediocre Thriller
Tom Conway plays Tom Conway in this lacklustre thriller with too many red herrings and an over imaginative scriptwriter.For example just what does Michael Ripper have to do with the plot.Precious little.When we find out the reason for his visits to the fashion house it is rather underwhelming.Why do the police assume that the customer committed suicide,surely a bit unlikely in the circumstances.If the police believed that every time a fugitive picked up a box and said it was a bomb they would never capture anyone.Eric Pohlman being stabbed in the middle of a car park by the murderer,rather implausible.By the climax there had been too many twists and turns and I had rather lost interest.
Gowns By Worth
Impeccably groomed Tom Conway could easily have found his own special movie niche but he had the misfortune to be always in the shadow of his more renowned brother, George Sanders. Even when he replaced his brother in the Falcon series and proved more popular with cinema audiences, once the series finished (and it ran for years) he was in limbo. Like many Hollywood actors with their heyday behind them, he went to England where his debonair accent fitted in well with "Blood Orange", a murder mystery set in the world of high fashion. Interesting, even though he was born in Russia, posters made much of the fact that he was a Hollywood star. He plays private investigator Tom Conway (I'm positive that one of the models greets him with "Mr. Conway, I've seen all your pictures"!) brought in by the owner of the fashion house "Pascall" to investigate a jewel robbery that occurred on the premises. Things start to happen when a fussy woman customer accuses a model of wearing some rubies that were stolen from her the year before - everyone regards her as a crackpot but when the model dies in a fall from a broken barrier and Lady Marjorie (the crackpot) is murdered at her flat, both women wearing a distinctive blood orange gown, suddenly Scotland Yard is called in. And it takes them a while to decide that the older lady has been murdered!! Richard Wattis (he of countless prissy roles in later movies and TV) plays the young inspector who reluctantly teams up with Conway who is keenly romancing one of the models, Gina. Naomi Chance was glamorous enough to be paired with several American stars dipping their feet in English waters. As one reviewer said there were too many red herrings and it threw the plot into chaos. Mr. Mercedes (Eric Pohlman), initially a sinister character flanked by goons who do his dirty work seems a likely suspect but he is soon out of it, stabbed in broad daylight in a public park!!! Then there is Eddie, always hanging around and giving Conway an ominous speech - who are these people?? Hilarious scene where Mr. Mercedes scares everyone by hinting that a harmless gift is really a dangerous bomb and despite the police presence manages to escape!!