Moss Rose( 1947)

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Overview

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.

Top Billed Cast

Peggy Cummins
Belle Adair aka Rose Lynton
Victor Mature
Michael Drego
Ethel Barrymore
Lady Margaret Drego
Vincent Price
Police Inspector Clinner
Margo Woode
Daisy Arrow
George Zucco
Craxton
Patricia Medina
Audrey Ashton
Rhys Williams
Deputy Inspector Evans
Norman Ainsley
Deputy Coroner (uncredited)
Harry Allen
Threadbare Little Man (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Lodger (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Harry, Cab Driver (uncredited)
Barbara Blaine
Dancer (uncredited)
Clifford Brooke
Chemist (uncredited)
Charlene Brooks
Dancer (uncredited)
Colin Campbell
Art Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
Coroner (uncredited)
Russ Clark
Constable (uncredited)
Michael Dyne
Asst. Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Paul England
Publican (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Constable (uncredited)
Alex Frazer
Landlord (uncredited)
John Goldsworthy
Minister (uncredited)
Alec Harford
Bookseller (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Family Soliciter (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Pompous English Colonel (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Connie Leon
Seamstress (uncredited)
Lee MacGregor
Bellboy (uncredited)
Stanley Mann
Footman (uncredited)
Charles McNaughton
Alf (uncredited)
Tom Moore
Coroner's Foreman (uncredited)
Doreen Munroe
Lodger (uncredited)
Patrick O'Moore
George Gilby (uncredited)
Francis Pierlot
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Eileen Robinson
Dancer (uncredited)
Felippa Rock
Liza, Dancer (uncredited)
John Rogers
Fothergill (uncredited)
Carol Savage
Harriet (uncredited)
Dorothy Schoemer
Dancer (uncredited)
Wallace Scott
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Sally Shepherd
Maid (uncredited)
Gerald Oliver Smith
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Phil Sudano
Stevens (uncredited)
Basil Walker
Thompson (uncredited)
Jacqueline Warrington
Dancer (uncredited)
Gilbert Wilson
Footman (uncredited)
Victor Wood
Wilson (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

7.5

Written by John Chard on Sat Nov 02 2013

As I lay me down to sleep... Moss Rose is directed by Gregory Ratoff and adapted to screenplay by Niven Busch, Jules Furthman and Tom Reed from the novel The Crime of Laura Saurelle written by Joseph Shearing. It stars Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina and Rhys Williams. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Somebody is killing Michael Drego's (Mature) lovers and leaving behind a bible and a compressed dried moss rose. When her dancer friend is one of the victims, Belle Adair (Cummins) thi...