Face the Music

A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!

Cast

Alex Nicol

as James Bradley

Eleanor Summerfield

as Barbara Quigley

John Salew

as Maxie Margulies

Paul Carpenter

as Johnny Sutherland

Geoffrey Keen

as Maurie Green

Ann Hanslip

as Maxine Halbard

Fred Johnson

as Det. Sgt. MacKenzie

Martin Boddey

as Insp. Mulrooney

Arthur Lane

as Jeff Colt

Paula Byrne

as Gloria Lewis Colt

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Kenny Baker's trumpet playing does most of the heavy lifting here in this otherwise rather long and daft crime drama. An enthusiastic Alex Nicol ("Bradley") is the box-office "star" brought over to augment this story of a newly-arrived, acclaimed, trumpeter who finds himself jet-lagged and embroiled...

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