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Moss Rose

Name: Moss Rose
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1947-05-30
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 6.579

★ 6,6 /10 (19 Votes)

1947 EN 82 min

Overview

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.

Release date

30/05/1947

Votes

Popularity

1.1

Genres

Mystery Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

82 min

Peggy Cummins

Belle Adair aka Rose Lynton

Victor Mature

Michael Drego

Ethel Barrymore

Lady Margaret Drego

Vincent Price

Police Inspector Clinner

Margo Woode

Daisy Arrow

George Zucco

Craxton

Patricia Medina

Audrey Ashton

Rhys Williams

Deputy Inspector Evans

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Norman Ainsley

Deputy Coroner (uncredited)

Harry Allen

Threadbare Little Man (uncredited)

Frank Baker

Lodger (uncredited)

Billy Bevan

Harry, Cab Driver (uncredited)

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Barbara Blaine

Dancer (uncredited)

Clifford Brooke

Chemist (uncredited)

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Charlene Brooks

Dancer (uncredited)

Colin Campbell

Art Gallery Attendant (uncredited)

Leonard Carey

Coroner (uncredited)

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Russ Clark

Constable (uncredited)

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Michael Dyne

Asst. Hotel Manager (uncredited)

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Paul England

Publican (uncredited)

Al Ferguson

Constable (uncredited)

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Alex Frazer

Landlord (uncredited)

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John Goldsworthy

Minister (uncredited)

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Alec Harford

Bookseller (uncredited)

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Sam Harris

Family Soliciter (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Pompous English Colonel (uncredited)

Colin Kenny

Cab Driver (uncredited)

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Connie Leon

Seamstress (uncredited)

Lee MacGregor

Bellboy (uncredited)

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Stanley Mann

Footman (uncredited)

Charles McNaughton

Alf (uncredited)

Tom Moore

Coroner's Foreman (uncredited)

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Doreen Munroe

Lodger (uncredited)

Patrick O'Moore

George Gilby (uncredited)

Francis Pierlot

Train Conductor (uncredited)

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Eileen Robinson

Dancer (uncredited)

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Felippa Rock

Liza, Dancer (uncredited)

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John Rogers

Fothergill (uncredited)

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Carol Savage

Harriet (uncredited)

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Dorothy Schoemer

Dancer (uncredited)

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Wallace Scott

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Sally Shepherd

Maid (uncredited)

Gerald Oliver Smith

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

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Phil Sudano

Stevens (uncredited)

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Basil Walker

Thompson (uncredited)

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Jacqueline Warrington

Dancer (uncredited)

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Gilbert Wilson

Footman (uncredited)

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Victor Wood

Wilson (uncredited)

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As I lay me down to sleep... Moss Rose is directed by Gregory Ratoff and adapted to screenplay by Niven Busch, Jules Furthman and Tom Reed from the novel The Crime of Laura Saurelle written by Joseph Shearing. It stars Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina and Rhys Williams. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Somebody is killing Michael Drego's (Mature) lovers and leaving behind a bible and a compressed dried moss rose. When her dancer friend is one of the victims, Belle Adair (Cummins) th…

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When her best friend is murdered, "Rose" (Peggy Cummins) reckons she knows who did the killing. Her approach to "Michael" (Victor Mature) gets rebuffed and indeed the police investigation led by "Insp. Clinner" (Vincent Price) seems to further exonerate him, but she persists and finally touches enough nerves to get an invitation to the man's stately home where his mother "Lady Margaret" (Ethel Barrymore) keeps a fine collection of Devonshire flowers. What's that to do with anything? Well by her body there was a bible in which was pressed this very specific type of rose. Just because they have …

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