Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211

‘GUILTY LOVE has made many a killer – but none so ingenious as this!’ Director Vernon Sewell’s 1957 British second feature crime thriller film Rogue’s Yarn stars Nicole Maurey and Derek Bond as lovers plotting to kill his rich invalid wife. 

‘GUILTY LOVE has made many a killer – but none so ingenious as this!’ Director Vernon Sewell’s 1957 British second feature crime thriller film Rogue’s Yarn stars Nicole Maurey and Derek Bond.

Rogue’s Yarn is an undistinguished but acceptable British Fifties crime drama programmer, with a fairly involving, contrived plot in which a Scotland Yard police inspector (Elwyn Brook-Jones) and sergeant (Hugh Latimer) try to prove that a man called John Marsden (Derek Bond), plotting with his French lover Michele Cartier (Nicole Maurey), killed his rich invalid wife at the family home while he was supposedly at sea in his yacht.

Maurey and Bond lack spark and conviction in lightweight lead performances, and director Vernon Sewell doesn’t bring enough imagination or style to the handling. But Brook-Jones and Latimer help out in interestingly quirky performances, and so does John Serret as the French police official, Inspector Lafarge.

It starts: ‘Extract from The Manual of Seamanship: “ROGUE’S YARN” – A COLOURED YARN FOUND IN THE HEART OF ALL GOVERNMENT ROPE.’

It was shot at Brighton Studios and released in August 1957.

The cast are Nicole Maurey as Michele Cartier, Derek Bond as John Marsden, Elwyn Brook-Jones as Inspector Walker, Hugh Latimer as Sergeant Adams, John Serret as Inspector Lafarge, John Salew as Sam Youles, Nigel Fitzgerald as commissioner, Joan Carol as nurse, Madoline Thomas as cook, Agatha Carroll as Hester Marsden, Barbara Christie as maid, Hugh Morton as doctor, Colin Tapley as police inspector, Sidney Vivian as corner shop proprietor, André Maranne as French fisherman, Roland Curram as pilot, Eric Corrie, Nigel Fitzgerald, John Helier, and Vernon Sewell.

Rogue’s Yarn is directed by Vernon Sewell, runs 80 minutes, is made by Cresswell Productions, is released by Eros Films, is written by Ernie Bradford and Vernon Sewell, is shot in black and white by Hal Morey, is produced by George Maynard, is scored by Robert Sharples, and is designed by Bernard Sarron.

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