A play adaptation featuring sweet old ladies, arsenic, and murder, this thriller is obviously written in the vein of
Arsenic and Old Lace and
The Ladykillers but is far less memorable than those comedy thriller classics, mostly because the mystery here, about a murdered cat, poisoned whisky, jewellery thefts and the murder of a wicked stepmother is crammed into the movie's last fifteen minutes after a long and convoluted hour of dreary drama.
★★☆☆☆
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