Model for Murder is a 1959 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 directed by Terry Bishop

Terry Bishop

Terry Bishop was a British screenwriter, television and film director.-Selected filmography:Director* Western Isles - Documentary* - Scenario* Model for Murder * The Unstoppable Man...

 and starring Keith Andes

Keith Andes

Keith Andes was an American film, radio, musical theatre, stage and television actor.-Early life:John Charles Andes was born in Ocean City, New Jersey on July 12, 1920. By the age of 12, he was featured on the radio....

, Hazel Court

Hazel Court

Hazel Court was an English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s.-Early life:...

 and Jean Aubrey.

Plot

American sailor David Martens, on shore leave in England, visits his brother Jack's grave. He meets fashion designer Sally Meadows, who by coincidence works with Jack's ex-fiancee, Diana, a model.

Successful stylist Kingsley Beauchamp and financial backer Madame Dupont own the company where Sally and Diana are employed. Expensive jewels are to be worn by Diana when she models a new dress, but Beauchamp hires two men, Costard and Podd, to break into a safe after hours and steal the gems.

Diana stumbles on the robbery and Costard kills her. He knocks David unconscious and decides to frame him for the theft, crashing a car with David inside, reporting it stolen and placing a ruby bracelet in David's pocket.

While the police make David a prime suspect, Beauchamp and Costard dispose of Diana's body and the diamonds. They decide to murder David after he suspects them, using gas, but Sally saves him.

Diana's body is found in a river. David goes to Beauchamp's home and discovers the missing dress worn by Diana. He knows that Beauchamp is about to fly to Amsterdam, so he hurries to the airport. Costard is there, being double-crossed while Podd smuggles the jewels on Beauchamp's behalf. The police arrive in time to arrest all three.

Cast

• Keith Andes
  Keith Andes
  Keith Andes was an American film, radio, musical theatre, stage and television actor.-Early life:John Charles Andes was born in Ocean City, New Jersey on July 12, 1920. By the age of 12, he was featured on the radio....
  
   - David Martens
• Hazel Court
  Hazel Court
  Hazel Court was an English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s.-Early life:...
  
   - Sally Meadows
• Jean Aubrey - Annabelle Meadows
• Michael Gough
  Michael Gough
  Michael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise,...
  
   - Kingsley Beauchamp
• Julia Arnall
  Julia Arnall
  -Selected filmography:* I Am a Camera * Value for Money * Simon and Laura * Man of the Moment * Lost * The Man Without a Body * Mark of the Phoenix * Model for Murder...
  
   - Diana Leigh
• Patricia Jessel
  Patricia Jessel
  Patricia Helen Jessel was an English actress for stage and film...
  
   - Madame Dupont
• Peter Hammond
  Peter Hammond (actor)
  Peter Hammond Hill was an English actor and television director.He made his film début in Waterloo Road in 1945 and went onto carve a career playing handsome boy next door types throughout the late forties and early fifties most notably as Peter Hawtrey in The Huggetts Trilogy - Here Come the...
  
   - George
• Edwin Richfield
  Edwin Richfield
  Edwin Richfield was an English actor.His film credits include: X the Unknown, Quatermass 2, The Camp on Blood Island, The Face of Fu Manchu and Quatermass and the Pit....
  
   - Costard, Chauffeur
• Alfred Burke
  Alfred Burke
  Alfred Burke was a British actor, best known for his portrayal of Frank Marker in the drama series Public Eye, which ran on television for ten years.-Early life:...
  
   - Podd
• Richard Pearson
  Richard Pearson (actor)
  Richard de Pearsall Pearson was a Welsh actor. Notable films of his career included Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge as well as a brief appearance in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday and cameo roles in three films by Roman Polanski: Macbeth , Tess and Pirates...
  
   - Bullock
• George Benson
  George Benson (actor)
  George Christopher Benson was a Welsh and English actor of both theatre and screen, whose career spanned from the 1930s to the late 1970s...
  
   - Freddie
• Diane Bester - Tessa
• Howard Marion-Crawford
  Howard Marion-Crawford
  Howard Marion-Crawford , the grandson of writer F. Marion Crawford, was an English character actor, best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the 1954 television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes...
  
   - Inspector Duncan
• Neil Hallett - Sgt. Anderson
• Barbara Archer - Betty Costard
• Annabel Maule
  Annabel Maule
  -Selected filmography:* Save a Little Sunshine * Model for Murder * Danger Tomorrow * Out of Africa -External links:...
  
   - Hospital Sister
• Charles Lamb
  Charles Lamb (actor)
  Charles Lamb was a British film and television actor.His longest role was as Mrs Dale's gardener, Monument, in the radio soap opera Mrs Dale's Diary.-Selected filmography:* Once a Crook...
  
  - Lock Keeper