Dilemma

1962
6.4| 1h5m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1962 Released
Producted By: Bryanston Films
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Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.

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Director

Peter Maxwell

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Bryanston Films

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Dilemma Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
John Kemp Coming to this film only eleven years (!) after Chris Gaskins' review, his comment "The piano tuner being blind is a little far fetched though" stirred a memory,so I looked online and saw that there is indeed an Association of Blind Piano Tuners. It may be an edition of QI that I am remembering, and I believe that Stephen Fry said that there is no authoritative figure of the number of UK piano tuners. My education is not solely derived from TV, I hasten to add.
trimmerb1234 This is a rather better than average B feature, set in a modest respectable middle-class '30s-'50s suburb of houses with tidy front gardens, net curtain and a nosy neighbour.A bored middle-aged housewife notices some odd occurrences at her neighbours house - a scream, the sudden departure of the wife, the return of the husband, his curious activities throughout the day - carrying bags of cement indoors, carrying a large tin bath also indoors. All very suspicious. She consults her husband who knows her habits and reassuringly dismisses her concerns.So far precisely an episode of One Foot in the Grave - the type of neighbourhood, bizarre happenings with very dark interpretations.Only the dark events are not imagined but completely real - as the audience to this crime-mystery know in the first few minutes. The happenings are completely beyond the imaginings of the suspicious neighbour.I didn't guess the final revelation. Although it is fairly engrossing, a better production would have ramped up the tension and made the wife's manner less even as the conclusion approached.My lasting impression is that One Foot in the Grave, now an established comedy classic was a genius comic twist on this fairly ordinary original. Or perhaps I am just imagining it?
Leofwine_draca I really liked this unusually-plotted British thriller, which is full to the brim of suspense and black comedy which really makes it work. It's one of those 'hide the corpse' type tales (the South Korean effort A HARD DAY was similar but far more elaborate) with a distinctly British slant to it. Peter Halliday plays an ordinary husband who makes a living as a music teacher. He returns to his home in the suburbs one day to find his wife missing and a bloodied corpse in the bathroom. What better way to resolve the situation than to bury the corpse under his living room floor? That's the plot in a nutshell, but the surprisingly humorous execution is what makes this really work. Halliday is a delight as the increasingly stressed out protagonist, and I was delighted by the typically English way he keeps getting interrupted in his work by all sorts of people, particularly Patricia Burke's nosy neighbour. The eventual solving of the mystery is a little ahead of its time (I don't remember cocaine being utilised in British films too much during this time) but it's the execution that makes this little film shine.
johne23-1 Now here's a dilemma -What do you do when you come home early to your little semi-detached in commuter land to find the house empty apart from a dead body in your bathroom? Why, naturally, you draw the curtains and dig a hole in the middle of the living-room, don't you? Ignoring various neighbours asking for cups of tea and people fossicking around in your herbaceous border, your scheme is nearly foiled by the blind piano-tuner who.... Oh never mind... On second thoughts, it's not too bad a suspense/drama thing, with a twist of course, and worth an hour of your time.