Vengeance Is Mine is a 1949 British second feature crime drama film directed by Alan Cullimore and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth and Richard Goolden.
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Plot
Charles Heywood is a wrongly imprisoned businessman who is told by his doctors that he is dying. He constructs an elaborate plan to hire a hitman to kill him and then frame his former partner, who put him behind bars.
Cast
Valentine Dyall as Charles Heywood
Anne Firth as Linda Farrell
Richard Goolden as Sammy Parsons
Sam Kydd as Stacy
Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Briggs
Patsy Drake as Patsy
Alexander Wright as the doctor
Russell Westwood as Cass
Manville Tarrant as man
Alex Graham as barman
John Hart as barman
Arthur Brander as Richard Kemp
Roland Caswell as Police Sargeant
Michael Bird as policeman
Bob Connor as garage man
Betty Taylor as the little girl
Critical reception
Monthly Film Bulletin said "This absurd story is not helped by the lugubrious playing of Valentine Dyall as Charles; overstressing of the comic relief and third-rate acting destroy any remaining likelihood of reality."
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "Absurd thriller: even the cast don't seem enthusiastic."