The Notorious Landlady

Diplomat Jack Lemmon is newly assigned to London. He rents half a house from Kim Novak. He's interested in more than shelter. His boss, Fred Astaire, warns him that she is suspected of murdering her missing husband; the only reason she is not in custody is that there's no corpse. Lemmon begins a long and clumsy effort to exonerate her. It's interrupted when she kills her missing husband.

It's a treat to see these three together, along with Lionel Jeffries and Estelle Winwood. Unfortunately, the copy I looked at on Turner Classic Movies was not pleasing. Although cinematographer Arthur Arling offers some nice location shooting around London and Point Lobas in Carmel (standing in for Penzance), his camera does not love people. Perhaps the print was a touch too dark. Also, the movie seemed to go on too long at over two hours, and offers an uneasy blend of serious and farcical elements.