Mysterious Mr. Nicholson

An old geezer is writing his nephew out of his will, so lawyer George Bishop sends his secretary, Lesley Osmond, over to the house with the will. Just outside, she meets Anthony Hulme(playing Nicholson), who's coming from the house. He hurries on and she goes onto the house's grounds.... and finds a corpse. After the police are summoned, Hulme shows up at the lawyer's office, claiming to be a private detective. What is going on?

I don't really much care. The performances are loud and stagy, the score by Isaac Snoek is loud and random, and the camerawork by S.D. Onions is dark and dreary -- although that may be a problem of the print rather than the movie. The characters are underwritten, and although the two leads try to talk like human beings... well, that darned score keeps getting in the way.

The director, Oswld Mitchell, s not a name to conjure with. I couldn't recall anything else he had directed, although looking at his IMDb credits showed he was in charge of 31 movies from 1934 through 1949. Half a dozen of them were Old Mother Rileys. He died in 1949 at the age of 51.