Friday, April 3, 2020

Jigsaw (UK, 1963)

An uncharacteristic moment from the film.

Black and white, wide screen. Police procedural. Brighton detectives investigate when  a woman is found murdered in a beach house. Made Britain look quite pleasant considering the subject matter. Police were polite and the people they talked to seemed nice enough. I would have liked living there even with a murderer running loose.

Contrast that with Dragnet which started every episode with a travelogue showing how great Los Angeles was before revealing the place was lousy with child molesters, con men, murderers, Nazis, drug addicts, juvenile delinquents and hippies.

Black and white, widescreen. Directed by Val Guest. Available on Cohen Media Channel.

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