Vengeance Is Mine (1949 film)

Vengeance Is Mine is a 1949 British second feature crime drama film directed by Alan Cullimore and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth and Richard Goolden.

Plot
Charles Heywood is a wrongly imprisoned businessman who is told by his doctors that he is dying. He constructs an elaborate plan to hire a hitman to kill him and then frame his former partner, who put him behind bars.

Cast

 * Valentine Dyall as Charles Heywood
 * Anne Firth as Linda Farrell
 * Richard Goolden as Sammy Parsons
 * Sam Kydd as Stacy
 * Ethel Coleridge as Mrs Briggs
 * Patsy Drake as Patsy
 * Alexander Wright as the doctor
 * Russell Westwood as Cass
 * Manville Tarrant as man
 * Alex Graham as barman
 * John Hart as barman
 * Arthur Brander as Richard Kemp
 * Roland Caswell as Police Sargeant
 * Michael Bird as policeman
 * Bob Connor as garage man
 * Betty Taylor as the little girl

Critical reception
Monthly Film Bulletin said "This absurd story is not helped by the lugubrious playing of Valentine Dyall as Charles; overstressing of the comic relief and third-rate acting destroy any remaining likelihood of reality."

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "Absurd thriller: even the cast don't seem enthusiastic."