Before I get into the review at hand let me explain my absence as I haven't really had the time and whatnot to watch and review movies however in light of this i've found a few ways to make this blog even better as i've figured out how to make screencaps and thus starting soon you'll be seeing my own screencaps of the flicks i've been watching. I won't be continuing the X-Men retrospective for a couple or so weeks for various reasons but i'll continue to do some classic movies and of course the Godzilla stuff.
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Plot Summary
Whitney 'Cam' Cameron (Joseph Cotton) returns to Manhattan to visit his widowed
sister-in-law Lynn (Jean Peters) and her stepchildren, his niece and nephew. His niece
has suddenly fallen ill with a mysterious malady whose symptoms mirror
those of his deceased brother. After being hospitalized, the girl seems
to be rallying but quickly takes a turn for the worse and dies from the
undiagnosed illness. Cam's friend and lawyer Fred Sargent (Gary Merrill) and his wife
Maggie (Catherine McLeod) believe that the symptoms may suggest strychnine poisoning, and
as Lynn stands to inherit a fortune if nephew Doug dies also, Cam now
views her with suspicion. Despite circumstantial evidence that she
murdered her step-daughter, Lynn is released for insufficient cause.
When she tells him that she intends to take Doug to Europe, Cam realizes
that desperate measures are needed if he is to save the boy's life