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Candidate for Murder: Directed by David Villiers. With Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin. With his marriage failing, a man hires a German assassin to murder his wife, who he suspects is having an affair. Things seem to go to plan at first, until the assassin decides not to kill the woman, but rather kidnap her, while still collecting his fee for the job.
Candidate for Murder (übersetzt „Kandidat für einen Mord“) ist ein britischer Kriminalfilm von David Villiers aus dem Jahr 1962. Produziert wurde er von der Filmgesellschaft Merton Park Studios. Das Drehbuch stammt von dem Drehbuchautor Lukas Heller und baut auf der Kurzgeschichte The Best Laid Plans of a Man in Love von Edgar Wallace auf.
Candidate for Murder: Directed by David Villiers. With Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin. The professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers the plot and he trails Kersten and Edwards to a country cottage.
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Candidate for Murder stars Jimmy Stewart as folksy private detective Hawkins. Paul Burke costars as Hawkins' client, the campaign manager for a charismatic politician (John Ericson). A TV reporter who had threatened to release a damaging story about the politico has been murdered, and Burke is the Numero Uno suspect.
It makes for a snappy little crime thriller in the hands of director David Villiers, a documentary filmmaker who made only one other feature before dying unexpectedly in 1962 at the age of 40. Whether the twists are in the original Wallace story or were created in the screen adaptation by Lukas Heller, CANDIDATE FOR MURDER is a delicious tale ...
