Death Goes to School

Death Goes to School is a 1953 British mystery film directed by Stephen Clarkson and starring Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson and Pamela Alan. It was made at Merton Park Studios as a second feature.

Plot
Police investigate the death of a tyrannical teacher at a girls school, where any number of people might have killed the dead woman.

Cast

 * Barbara Murray as Miss Shepherd
 * Gordon Jackson as Detective Inspector Campbell
 * Pamela Alan as Miss Helen Cooper
 * Jane Aird as Miss M. Halstead
 * Beatrice Varley as Miss Hopkinson
 * Anne Butchart as Miss Oliphant
 * Imogene Moynihan as Miss Essex
 * Jenine Matto as Miss Stanislaus
 * Sam Kydd as Sergeant Harvey
 * Robert Long as Mr. Lawley
 * Nina Parry as Mary
 * Stanley Rose as Inspector Burgess
 * Enid Stewart as Mrs. White
 * Julie Stewart as Mrs. White
 * Sandra Whipp as Brenda
 * Pauline Winter as Mrs. Lawley

Reception
Kinematograph Weekly said: "Unhurried but reasonably well acted, it holds the interest even if it fails to chill the spine".

Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As a thriller this is poor, the successive interviewing of the suspects one by one inducing positive tedium. The film, however, has one bright aspect: the amusing caricature of girls' school life it provides."

In British Sound Films David Quinlan describes the film as: "Verbose, monotonous whodunnit"