The Glass Cage (1955)

For old times sake, a struggling carnival barker (John Ireland) agrees to help an old friend (Sidney James) by seeing the girl (Tonia Bern) who is bleeding his friend for money in the hope he can persuade her to stop. But when the girl turns up murdered, he becomes a suspect. Based on the novel THE OUTSIDERS by A.E. Martin and directed by Montgomery Tully. This is a rather dreary thriller. We know who the killer is right from the onset, so it's not a whodunit but a when will he be found out and caught. The carnival/circus milieu adds a touch of interest to the proceedings but on the whole, it's a dispensable piece of melodramatics. It seems it was intended for the lower half of double bills as it runs an hour long which is short for a feature film. Retitled THE GLASS TOMB for the U.S. The cast is good and includes Honor Blackman as Ireland's wife, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann, Ferdy Mayne and Liam Redmond.