Tread Softly

5.0(5)19521h 10m

Mystery

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

Director

David MacDonald

Cast

Frances Day

Madeleine Peters

Patricia Dainton

Tangye Ward

John Bentley

Keith Gilbert

John Laurie

Angus McDonald

Olaf Olsen

Philip Defoe

Nora Nicholson

Mrs Mayne

Harry Locke

Nutty Potts

Betty Baskcomb

Olivia Winters

Robert Urquhart

Clifford Brett

Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Inspector Hinton

Michael Ward

Alexander Mayne

Reviews

2 reviews

dennyjt

3y ago

3.0

Odd mix of light, frivolous musical and dark murder mystery. Bentley's new musical needs a theatre so he arranges to hire old lady Nicholson's disused hall. Trouble is, they find a body behind the stage. The cast aren't phased by this and carry on rehearsing their silly songs and dances while the gruff cops investigate. After another murder, things get serious, but not much. A decidedly second-ra...

Geronimo1967

3y ago

5.0

A complete cannibalisation of loads of other stories, but it's still quite a watchable little drama based on the BBC radio serial "The Show Must Go On". An actress (Frances Day) walks out on a production days before curtain up and Patricia Dainton is selected to fill her shoes. Next thing we know, folks start dropping like flies (including Day) and John Bentley and Ronald Leigh-Hunt get their inve...