A forgettable thriller!

Midnight Lace (1960)

This 1960 suspense thriller did not strike as a memorable flick. I guess I have seen way too many films like this to be thrilled. An American heiress in London, living the high life, experiences death threats which nobody believes and accuse her to have lost her mind only to turn out that she has right all along and the perpetrator is someone close all along! Sounds familiar?
There were a few saving grace, however. The gorgeous Doris Day with her 60s VO5 sprayed blonde curls and her various modest but striking trendy fashion clothes of the bygone era. Rex Harrison is charming as a caring husband. Even though not his personal best, John William, who had been in many of Hitchcock's TV series is a joy to watch as a Scotland Yard officer. The story however, is quite predictable.

Kit Preston (Doris Day) hears threatening voices on her life repeatedly, during a walk on a foggy evening and repeated phone call. Tony (Rex Harrison), her friend Peggy and her Aunt Bea think that it is the work of a prankster. As the calls become more frequent and she is alone and she falls in front of a running bus, everyone suspects that she may be craving for attention. Meanwhile, her maid's son (Roddy MacDowell) is a nuisance, a suspicious character is seen loitering around, the foreman of a construction company doing repairs in front of her flat seem very close to Mrs Preston.

John William

A day before the Preston's planned vacation to Venice, the assailant strikes. Hold behold, it had been the husband all this while. He wanted the money to put into his business. He thought he could push his wife to suicide. His accomplice had been Peggy. The suspicious character seen around is actually Peggy's boyfriend who was planning to kill his cheating girlfriend and her lover (i.e. Tony Preston).

yawn... A forgettable affair. It probably marks the end of an era of suspense thriller film where actress can be fully covered to thrill!