When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
- 6.4
- 1947
- Released
- 1h 22m
Peggy Cummins
Belle Adair aka Rose Lynton
Victor Mature
Michael Drego
Ethel Barrymore
Lady Margaret Drego
Vincent Price
Police Inspector Clinner
Margo Woode
Daisy Arrow
George Zucco
Craxton
Patricia Medina
Audrey Ashton
Rhys Williams
Deputy Inspector Evans
Norman Ainsley
Deputy Coroner (uncredited)Harry Allen
Threadbare Little Man (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Lodger (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Harry, Cab Driver (uncredited)Barbara Blaine
Dancer (uncredited)
Clifford Brooke
Chemist (uncredited)Charlene Brooks
Dancer (uncredited)
Colin Campbell
Art Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
Coroner (uncredited)Russ Clark
Constable (uncredited)Paul England
Publican (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Constable (uncredited)Alex Frazer
Landlord (uncredited)John Goldsworthy
Minister (uncredited)Alec Harford
Bookseller (uncredited)Sam Harris
Family Soliciter (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Pompous English Colonel (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Cab Driver (uncredited)Connie Leon
Seamstress (uncredited)Lee MacGregor
Bellboy (uncredited)Stanley Mann
Footman (uncredited)
Charles McNaughton
Alf (uncredited)
Tom Moore
Coroner's Foreman (uncredited)Doreen Munroe
Lodger (uncredited)
Patrick O'Moore
George Gilby (uncredited)
Francis Pierlot
Train Conductor (uncredited)Eileen Robinson
Dancer (uncredited)Felippa Rock
Liza, Dancer (uncredited)John Rogers
Fothergill (uncredited)Carol Savage
Harriet (uncredited)Dorothy Schoemer
Dancer (uncredited)Wallace Scott
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Sally Shepherd
Maid (uncredited)
Gerald Oliver Smith
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)Phil Sudano
Stevens (uncredited)Basil Walker
Thompson (uncredited)Jacqueline Warrington
Dancer (uncredited)Gilbert Wilson
Footman (uncredited)Victor Wood
Wilson (uncredited)
Released
en
- #based on novel or book
- #blackmail
- #victorian england
- #murder
- #chorus girl
- #cockneys
Reviews
When her best friend is murdered, "Rose" (Peggy Cummins) reckons she knows who did the killing. Her approach to "Michael" (Victor Mature) gets rebuffed and indeed the police investigation led by "Insp. Clinner" (Vincent Price) seems to further exonerate him, but she persists and finally touches enough nerves to get an invitation to the man's stately home where his mother "Lady Margaret" (Ethel Bar
As I lay me down to sleep... Moss Rose is directed by Gregory Ratoff and adapted to screenplay by Niven Busch, Jules Furthman and Tom Reed from the novel The Crime of Laura Saurelle written by Joseph Shearing. It stars Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina and Rhys Williams. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Josep