'Dear Murderer' is a surprisingly clever film from Gainsborough. I had heard very little about it before I started watching which is always a positive when it comes to film noir.
The film centres around an unhappily married couple named Lee and Vivian. Vivian is consistently unfaithful to Lee, and Lee is pathologically paranoid that she is cheating on him. Normally he can't find any proof, but seems to take it for granted that she will play away when he goes off on his business trips. One time however, he comes back early from his trip away, and finds several letters to his wife that solidify his fears. Confronting the lover, he persuades him to write Vivian a farewell letter before offing him, believing he has created the perfect murder. But in cases like this, there is always something that goes wrong...
Great acting for Eric Portman, Greta Gynt is beautiful and Dennis Price is suitably smarmy.
A little hidden gem in my opinion, with a cracking ending I wasn't expecting.
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