Tonight’s offering is an offbeat ‘B’ movie from Britain in the early 1950’s. The ‘Voice of Merrill’ stars James Robertson-Justice, playing a dramatic lead for a change and not what most people know him for as a comedic parody of an arrogant patrician.

This move has a lot crammed into the plot, murder, blackmail, infidelity and fraud. The plot revolves around a famous author, played by Robertson-Justice a man sick with heart disease and married to a much younger wife. The author also has some contacts with some shady characters, one of whom is being blackmailed by a showgirl who ends up being murdered. Into this mix comes an aspiring author who attracts the attention of the famous author’s wife and who ends up being asked to front up a BBC broadcast of stories that he didn’t write but wishes he had.

This is a pretty good thriller and one that is probably worth a go.