An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.
Derren Nesbitt
- Roger Forrester
- (as Derrin Nesbitt)
Sidney Vivian
- Fred - Barker-Rynde's Assistant
- (as Sidney Vyvyan)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRumbelow is seen wearing an Oldham Athletics Club tracksuit - actor Eric Sykes was born in the Lancashire town.
- GoofsDetective Inspector Hook claims that the poison was ricin. Ricin is so lethal that the fumes alone from tiniest droplet will kill 22 averaged sized humans that are in an enclosed space like the average sized warehouse. Had this ultra-lethal poison been actually put in the carrot juice, everyone on the establishment would have been dead within 90 minutes. Even where Det Insp Hook says that it had been syringed into the can, by the end of the scene, all three characters would have been writhing in agony on the floor, certain to die swiftly simply for having been that close to the can.
- Quotes
Rumbelow: You're paying 75 guineas a week, so we'll put you in hut number 29.
J. Barker-Rynde, PI: Hut?
- ConnectionsReferenced in A Patch of Blue (1965)
- SoundtracksEarly one Morning
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played as Terry-Thomas first enters the gate at Green Glades.
Featured review
It should have been a Classic
Kill or Cure ticks all the boxes to make it a 'must see British Film', until I switch off the Video and decide whether I want to erase the tape or not. Frankly, it doesn't work. And it should. And that is the most infuriating thing about this film. Look at the cast and plot: Terry Thomas is a private eye investigating a murder mystery at a health club/hotel (run by Dennis Price). He teems up with an obsessive physical fitness organiser, played by Eric Sykes at the height of his filmed career. In the best British Murder Mystery Genre, they try and bring the murderer to book ahead of Lionel Jeffries' neurotic Policeman. The murderer is uncovered, there is a lovely twist at the end, but I was left with a nagging 'could do better' feeling.
It lacked that vital something. The film was well cast; it was well plotted; decently filmed; enthusiastically acted, but even lacks the charm and appeal of the Agatha Christie Films made at the same time.
It lacked that vital something. The film was well cast; it was well plotted; decently filmed; enthusiastically acted, but even lacks the charm and appeal of the Agatha Christie Films made at the same time.
- richard-meredith27
- Mar 19, 2005
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- Mord på rum 7
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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