Rogue's Yarn (1957)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

John Marsden comes up with a master plan to murder his invalid wife Hester, and start a new life with his striking French Mistress Michele. Hot on his heels is Inspector Walker, who does everything he can to unpick the web Marsden has spun.It's a highly intriguing concept, as utterly unfeasible as the plot may be, it's still interesting enough. I find it more then difficult to believe that his boat would not have hit an unsuspecting bystander within ten minutes.The beginning is really enjoyable, I like the plot set up, the characters (even if some of the acting is a little ropy,) the trouble is after the first 25 minutes the film did not keep my attention, it became a little boring, once the M.O was discovered all the intrigue disappeared. The music was overpowering.I found myself using the fast forward button, 5/10

ROGUE'S YARN is an intriguing little murder mystery, shot in Brighton by director Vernon Sewell and featuring his famous yacht that had previously appeared in the likes of GHOST SHIP alongside many other productions. As some other reviewers on here have noted, the structure of the film and the content make it feel very much like a COLUMBO episode, with the murderer introduced to the viewer at the outset.The dashing Derek Bond plays an adulterous husband who plots to bump off his invalid wife with the help of his mistress. All goes according to plan, until a dogged detective shows up and threatens exposure. What follows is a fun police procedural movie, with a lot of screen time spent on the unravelling of a perfect alibi.The unknown Elwyn Brook-Jones stars as the detective, with the familiar Hugh Latimer in comic relief support as his sergeant. I wasn't familiar with Brook-Jones before this film, but the Roy Kinnear lookalike does a good job at bringing his working class character to life. He makes Walker both a realistic and likable presence. Although ROGUE'S YARN is undoubtedly a B-movie in terms of budget and narrative, Sewell is one of those directors with the capability to make any film look good and there's a great suspense sequence involving a leaking gas tap.

Vernon Sewell,the director owned a boat and liked to have it featured in a number of his films. In this film it provides the setting for much of the action.Sewell makes a decent attempt to try and convince us that there was a reasonable chance that the police would not be able to get enough evidence to charge him with murder. There is though one unintentionally funny scene where Bond has opened up a gas pipe in an attempt to blow up the detective.The detective keeps on trying to light his pipe with matches and a lighter but nothing works. This is rather an entertaining thriller. Obviously Sewell must have enjoyed himself particularly with all the nautical terms included in the script.

Not a very compelling film at all, I erroneously believed it was from the late thirties, perhaps an English suspense drama. Upon looking it up, I see it is from 1956! Inexcusably dull film.Derek Bond as the husband agrees with his French mistress Nicole Maurey that he will kill his invalid wife so they can be together. He devises 'an ingenious plot' by making sure he is seen voyaging out in a yacht, racing back in a rented speedboat or something, murdering her, then hurrying back, establishing his alibi. Apparently automatic pilot was still a bit of a novelty as that seemed to be the evidence that turned the tide. French witnesses to an unidentified speedboat and a gas fume leak in the yacht were also little tidbits to pay attention to. Pity Hitchcock couldn't have gotten hold of this one.Bond sought to off the Inspector with that gas fume leak on the yacht when he lit a match but the Inspector was out of matches. Suddenly Maurey was shocked by the man she saw. Why, when she had pushed him into murdering his wife? Maurey and Bond are for some reason listed as the stars but the investigating detectives were more compelling to watch. Look for 'Double Indemnity' instead.