Except For The Murders, It Hardly Seems Worth Visiting

Some one is strangling pretty women in Soho. Reporter Richard Murdoch is covering the case, when he isn't chatting up new-to-the-city Patricia Raine in Paul Demel's diner, where all sorts meet.

It's a very poorly written mystery, with a very obviously cheap shoot, since most of it is set in the diner, and little effort is made to advance either the murder mystery, nor the social lives of the actors. Director-producer-presenter Frank Chisnell keeps things simple and obvious, although there is one interesting sequence of portrait photography by the unnamed DP, meant to represent the varied types of people one meets in the London neighborhood.

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