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Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2
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In the 1961 neo noir thriller THE THIRD ALIBI, Laurence Payne looks like a young James Mason with high anxiety caused by many problems, but he really only has one... or, two... maybe three: beginning with the fact he's a composer of a rehearsing musical and doesn't have a lot of cash in the bank...
Relating to his primary concerns, the staple of any noir having to do with two dames: one's his wife in extremely pretty good-girl blonde Patricia Dainton, and then her dark-haired bad-girl step-sister Jane Griffiths...
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
With full lips and a sultry scowl, the latter's used to portraying secondary female leads, and she's intense and edgy as the intense and edgy dame who traps the man through an unwarranted pregnancy.... but it's Dainton, extremely sophisticated and looking like a bonafide royal princess, who turns tables with sneaky table-turning tricks...
Providing the back-against-a-corner Payne several more obstacles, including the usual murder plot to make things less complicated, personally... that doesn't turn out as planned: making ALIBI an effective hour-long thriller with neat twists curving around stage-like melodrama that's never overly dramatic.
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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Jane Griffiths in THE THIRD ALIBI
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| Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Jane Griffiths in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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| Patricia Dainton and Laurence Payne in THE THIRD ALIBI |
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Patricia Dainton in THE THIRD ALIBI with John Aranatt
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