![]() ![]() He invites her to stay at the huge house which he has inherited. When Edward asks where Dora lives, Phillip tells him she is far away, in Jamaica.Įdward meets Freda, a merry widow, in a seaside hotel and woos her. An inquest rules it an accident, but Phillip, Monica's lawyer, makes it clear that he suspects Edward. Edward will receive the main inheritance only if Dora dies. ![]() She leaves £200 to the elderly maid, but Edward convinces the maid that this was in lieu of wages, getting her to then work for free. To his chagrin, he discovers that she actually intended to leave him all her money instead, he only inherits the mansion from a prior will, while her fortune is left in trust to her only relative, her sister Dora. He stages it to look as if she was accidentally asphyxiated while drunkenly trying to light the gas fire. in the United Kingdom and Distributors Corporation of America in the United States.Ĭast a Dark Shadow was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 20 September, 1955.Īfter a year of marriage, Edward "Teddy" Bare kills his wealthy older wife, Monica, after she asks her lawyer, Phillip Mortimer, to change her will. The film was distributed by Eros Films Ltd. The story concerns a husband played by Dirk Bogarde who murders his wife. It stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison and Robert Flemyng. Cast a Dark Shadow is a 1955 black-and-white British suspense film noir directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by John Cresswell, based on the 1952 play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green.
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