Pretty well done, its not at all a "murder noir" - its much too bright, blunt, and in- your-face to be a noir. "Signpost" is a combination of prison escape, a who-dunnit, and even a bit of a 1970's psychological "thinker film". Whitman had been quite the boxer in the service, and had also done a lot of TV in the 1950s, then on to films in the late 1950s/1960s, now getting credited for his roles. Woodward had done mostly TV during the 1950s, then started in films. Shown August 2011 on TCM's "Joanne Woodward day", this production by Marten Pictures stars Joanne Woodward as "Molly" and Stewart Whitman as "Alex". Recommended if you're a mystery/suspense lover. Like many of his contemporaries, he wound up doing a lot of television. Whitman was one of those actors who, had he come along ten years earlier, would have been part of a studio build-up and had a much better career in films. The excellent Woodward is quite glamorous here, and Whitman does a terrific job. Very good story, fabulous set, somewhat slow-moving in the British fashion (since it is British) but with an exciting ending. Woodward's husband is expected home in the meantime, prison officials and police are combing the area for the convict. He escapes when the board refuses his release and hides out in a house owned by Woodward and her husband. He has been working with a psychiatrist (Mulhare). Whitman plays a convicted murderer, in prison for ten years. This almost seemed to me to be a television production, as the scenes seemed to be set up for commercials. Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, and Edward Mulhare star in "Signpost to Murder," a 1964 film directed by George Englund.
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