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  Review by loureviews ★★★½

  I wish it was as clear and dust-free under my floorboards as it is of those in the Barnes' house!

  Nosy neighbour hears a scream. Husband comes home from work and finds his wife gone and a man on the point of death in his bathroom. There's a pair of scissors on the floor and a stained apron in the washing basket.

  This is one of the Bryanston films from the company set up by Michael Balcon and associates when Ealing Studios folded. Peter Halliday and Ingrid Hafner are the couple, Patricia Burke the neighbour, and Joan Heath his mother.

  There's a definite feel of the 1960s twitching curtain surburbia in this economical crime drama, with lady housewives and gentlemen commuters from the city.

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  Review by Luke Thorne ★★★

  In Peter Maxwell’s British drama, Harry (Peter Halliday) returns home from work to be told by a neighbour that screams came from his house moments earlier. Also starring Patricia Burke.

  The story concerns satisfactory schoolmaster who comes back from work just before a wedding anniversary vacation to discover a bizarre man perished in their bathroom and his wife vanished.

  Peter Halliday gives a good performance in his role as the man who is going to have two shocks in store, and acts like he is determined to find out who is accountable, and where his wife has gone.

  Elsewhere, Ingrid Hafner as Jean Barnes, Patricia Burke as Edna Barnes, Joan Heath as Mrs. Barnes, and Patrick Jordan as Inspector Murray…

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  Review by Chloe

  The plot is thin even for an hour-long production, and the end is pretty anti-climactic, but the sheer amount of people who keep bothering this poor man when he’s trying to bury this darn body under the floorboards of his house becomes increasingly funny. By the time the blind piano tuner just wanders into his living room, Dilemma feels like an out-and-out comedy. That nosy neighbour is hilarious. And the nuns!

  Yep - not a great movie, but it’s certainly entertaining.

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  Review by DFvideodiary

  Buzzy, murder mystery B quickie about a man who returns home to find his wife has vanished and a there's a corpse in his bathroom. What the. Good stuff.

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  Review by Matthew Schmitz ★★

  Watched on Online.

  A pretty simple mystery drama that feels like a TV-movie.

  Even if I had carpentry skills...I would not cover up for my wife like this without a conversation.

  The nosey neighbor interactions reminded me of "Bewitched."