April Haddon
Mona Freeman
April Haddon
Before I Wake
“If I die before I wake this note will reveal The Killer...”
4.6
1955
1h 16m
Mystery
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Overview
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Cast
Florence Haddon
Jean Kent
Florence Haddon
Michael Elder
Maxwell Reed
Michael Elder
Mr. Driscoll
Hugh Miller
Mr. Driscoll
Elsie
Gretchen Franklin
Elsie
Dr. Elder
Frederick Leister
Dr. Elder
Police sergeant
Alexander Gauge
Police sergeant
Mrs. Harrison
Josephine Middleton
Mrs. Harrison
Jack Storey
Frank Forsyth
Jack Storey
Harry
Stanley Van Beers
Harry
Taxi driver
Frank Atkinson
Taxi driver
Station master
Philip Ray
Station master
Reviews
CinemaSerf
Though it's all entirely predicable, this, I still quite enjoyed it. "April" (Mona Freeman) returns home for the funeral of her father who was tragically killed in a boating accident. Her stepmother "Florence" (Jean Kent) shows all the outward signs of sympathy, but as the details of her father's death emerge, "April" beings to smell a rat. Things are only compounded when the reading of her father's will doesn't quite deliver what was expected! Is "Mona" just an hopeless paranoiac or might there really be danger? It's all just a little to rushed and convenient at the end, but the story is quite menacingly delivered by a jobbing cast rattling through a simple story of greed. Maxwell Reed features sparingly but adds very little to what is really a film about two strong women, some cigarettes and a few bottles of VSOP.
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