''Death in High Heels'' is a 1947 British crime film directed by Lionel Tomlinson and starring

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, Elsa Tee and Veronica Rose.BFI | Film & TV Database | DEATH IN HIGH HEELS (1947)
/ref> It was based on the 1941 novel of the same title by

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. It was a very early Hammer Films (here Marylebone-Hammer) production and was released through Exclusive Films, Hammer's original incarnation. Its running time was just over 50 minutes. It was last shown on British television on

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in 1991.

Plot

The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury Bond Street shop.

Cast

as Detective Charlesworth * Elsa Tee as Victoria David * Veronica Rose as Agnes Gregory * Denise Anthony as Aileen * Patricia Laffan as Magda Doon * Diana Wong as Miss Almond Blossom * Nora Gordon as Miss Arris * Bill Hodge as Mr Cecil * Kenneth Warrington as Frank Bevan * Leslie Spurling as Sergeant Bedd

References

External links

* 1947 films British crime films 1947 crime films British black-and-white films Hammer Film Productions films Films set in London Films based on British novels 1940s English-language films 1940s British films {{1940s-crime-film-stub