Face the Music
Excitement! Thrills! Suspense! will grip you like never before!
Synopsis
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Main Cast
Alex Nicol
James Bradley
Eleanor Summerfield
Barbara Quigley
John Salew
Maxie Margulies
Paul Carpenter
Johnny Sutherland
Geoffrey Keen
Maurie Green
Ann Hanslip
Maxine Halbard
Fred Johnson
Det. Sgt. MacKenzie
Martin Boddey
Insp. Mulrooney
Arthur Lane
Jeff Colt
Paula Byrne
Gloria Lewis Colt
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
Kenny Baker's trumpet playing does most of the heavy lifting here in this otherwise rather long and daft crime drama. An enthusiastic Alex Nicol ("Bradley") is the box-office "star" brought over to augment this story of a newly-arrived, acclaimed, trumpeter who finds himself jet-lagged and embroiled in the killing of a singer. Trying to convince "Insp. MacKenzie" (Fred Johnson) of his innocence he determines to investigate the crime himself - and he quickly discovers that there is no shortage of suspects nor motives as we are exposed to some of the less savoury aspects of the music business. It's ending smacks more of "Poirot" as we end up with everyone in a room facing our sleuth who goes through them all one-by-one. If you like a good jazz trumpet soundtrack to a film, then you will certainly get more from this, otherwise it's a bit too long and it was pretty easy to guess whodunit early on.
