Post by mikef6 on Oct 5, 2019 1:51:03 GMT
Terence De Marney stars as Johnnie Thompson, a veteran and popular boxer known as "The Croucher" . When he finally faces life outside the ring, life spirals out of his control. Unable to satisfy his demanding wife Jonnie becomes involved in criminal activity and finds himself with No Way Back (1949) Stefan Osiecki
If you check out the user comments on this film at the Internet Movie Database, you will see several from people who saw āDual Alibiā years ago in the theater or on U.K. television and it has stuck with them ever since. It is easy to see why.
Herbert Lom plays twin brothers who are star trapeze artists with a traveling circus. As with many movies about twins, no one can tell them apart, not even their closest friends or even their lovers. (In my own experience with āidenticalā twins, once you get to know them it is easy to tell them apart.) One of the brothers falls in love with a double-dealing dame who, with her manipulative boyfriend, robs them blind. This leads to a unique revenge scheme and a very dark ending.
Speaking of dark, every scene in āDual Alibiā takes place either indoors or at night. No one ever sees the sun. Lom is great as is Phyllis Dixey as the femme, Terence de Marney as the crooked mastermind, and Ronald Frankau as the kindly circus owner.