Three Cases of Murder (1955)

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CURRENT RANK#2509 VOTES5
STATUS NEVER IN TOP 1,000
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Film details

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Year1955
CountryUK
TypeMovie
Runtime99m
CastOrson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones, Alan Badel, André Morell, Hugh Pryse, Leueen MacGrath, Eddie Byrne, Helen Cherry

Review

"This unusual British film seems to have gone relatively unnoticed by numerous horror film historians and if it does warrant a mention it's usually dismissed without much afterthought. But with a cast that includes Orson Welles and a segment directed by one of Britain's first female directors (Wendy Toye), THREE CASES OF MURDER stands out as a wonderful example of early British horror cinema that rivals the highly acclaimed anthology DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)... George More O'Ferrall supposedly directed [the third] segment but in Peter Bogdanovich‘s acclaimed book This Is Orson Welles he credits Welles with co-directing the dream sequences and I have no reason to doubt him." - Kimberly Lindbergs, TCM's Movie Morlocks

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0000
HIGHEST#2,0072019
LOWEST#2,5092026
#1,966#2,258#2,55020192020202120232024202520262019 — #2,007 · Outside Top 1,0002020 — #2,256 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #2,478 · Outside Top 1,0002023 — #2,435 · Outside Top 1,0002024 — #2,417 · Outside Top 1,0002025 — #2,395 · Outside Top 1,0002026 — #2,509 · Outside Top 1,000
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

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Hidden Horrors

EDITIONS RANKED6
HIGHEST#1082019
LOWEST#1472015
#101#147#192Top 15020152016201720182019202020212018 — Not ranked · Outside Top 1502015 — #1472016 — #1252017 — #1192019 — #1082020 — #1372021 — #143
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

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