The Broken Horseshoe

Surgeon Robert Beatty operates on Ferdy Mayne with a new drug. Maybe has been in a hit-and-run and is anxious to get out of hospital, so he leave earlier than Beatty would like, especially as alluring Elizabeth Sellars had come by when Mayne was unconscious and Beatty wants to see her again. Mayne makes an appointment for a follow-up and gives Beatty a letter to hold until he returns. When he doesn't return, Beatty goes to Mayne's apartment and finds Mayne's corpse. His brother-in-law, Peter Coke, is the cop investigating the murder. Beatty doesn't mention Miss Sellars.

It's a decent mystery, and I preen a bit in that I figured it out. It's also a fair movie with film noir tinges, and a first film role for Roger Delgado. I was annoyed by Wilfred Burns' lush and busy score. Burns was a favored composer for bits of stock music, but listening to the bits constantly was a slightly onerous. That said, it's another decent B movie for Nettleford.