The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson

The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson
English pressbook cover
Directed byOswald Mitchell
Written byFrancis Miller
Oswald Mitchell (Additional scenes & dialogue)
Produced byGilbert Church
Starring
CinematographyS.D. Onions
Music byIsaac Snoek
Production
company
Gilbert Church Productions (as Bushey)
Distributed byAmbassador Film Productions Ltd. (UK)
Release date
  • 16 June 1947 (1947-06-16) (UK)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson[a] is a 1947 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond and Frank Hawkins.[1][2] It was written by Francis Miller and Mitchell. The plot concerns a valuable inheritance, murder, confusions of identity, and a mysterious crime boss.

Synopsis

A solicitor's secretary is taking a will to a client to be altered. Nearing the address, she bumps into a stranger and after finds a body (who turns out to be the client) lying murdered. The police find a note pinned to the dead man signed by a "V.L.S.". Mr Nicholson (V.L.S.) is approached by the police and he takes up the case.

Cast

  • Anthony Hulme as Nicholson / Raeburn
  • Lesley Osmond as Peggy Dundas
  • Frank Hawkins as Inspector Morley
  • Andrew Laurence as Waring
  • Douglas Stewart as Seymour
  • George Bishop as Mr Browne
  • Josie Bradley as Freda
  • Ivy Collins as Mrs Barnes

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is a confused and rather dull thriller badly knit together. The acting is amateurish in the extreme, and the continuity is poor."[3]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Its plot, which hinges on the hero's striking resemblance to a crook, is unabashed 'penny dreadful, but the leading players are reasonably convincing and the direction is not lacking in resource."[4]

Picturegoer wrote: "The story is embellished with a music hall sequence, and songs, and has a certain rough robustness which makes for quite acceptable entertainment."[5]

Notes

  1. ^ The opening credits show the title as "Mysterious Mr. Nicholson".

References

  1. ^ "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  2. ^ "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson (1947)". Archived from the original on 5 February 2009.
  3. ^ "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 14 (157): 3. 1 January 1947 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson". Kine Weekly. 359 (2073): 24. 9 January 1947 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson". Picturegoer. 16: 12. 5 June 1947 – via ProQuest.


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