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Director
  
Daniel Birt

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.2/10
IMDb

Music by
  
Gilbert Vinter

Genres
  
Drama, Crime Fiction

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Cast
  
Greta Gynt
(Sophy Burgoyne),
Hugh Sinclair
(Philip Burgoyne),
Sarah Lawson
(Dorothy),
Hélène Cordet
(Esme),
Elwyn Brook-Jones
(Wilbrahim)

Release date
  
1953 (1953)

Writer
  
Roger East (story), Brock Williams

Related Daniel Birt movies
  
Third Party Risk (1954), The Three Weird Sisters (1948), The Interrupted Journey (1949), No Room at the Inn (1948), Background (1953)

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Three Steps in the Dark is a 1953 British B-movie whodunit, directed by Daniel Birt and starring Greta Gynt and Hugh Sinclair.

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Plot

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A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.

Cast

  • Greta Gynt as Sophie Burgoyne
  • Hugh Sinclair as Philip Burgoyne
  • Sarah Lawson as Dorothy
  • Elwyn Brook-Jones as Wilbraham
  • John Van Eyssen as Henry Burgoyne
  • Nicholas Hannen as Arnold Burgoyne
  • Hélène Cordet as Esme
  • Alastair Hunter as Inspector Forbes
  • Katie Johnson as Mrs. Riddle

    • Later history

    Three Steps in the Dark appears to have been a programmer closely following the standard whodunit template, with Today's Cinema offering the analysis: "The film has a measure of well tried appeal in the matter of 'spotting the killer' and in anticipating the surprise revelation of his identity in the climax. There is the usual touch of romance to complete the formula." There is no indication that the film was ever shown publicly again in cinemas or on television following its initial run.

    The British Film Institute included the film on its "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films, due in large part to interest from film historians in Birt's relatively brief directorial career, which was cut short by his death at the age of 47 in 1955. The National Film and Sound Archive in Australia subsequently informed the BFI it has the film.

    References

    Three Steps in the Dark Wikipedia
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