Three Cases of Murder

Three offbeat murder stories, with different directors and sources. The first, "In the Picture," is genuinely eerie: a museum guide, fascinated by a painting of a house, finds himself literally in the picture, in the company of assorted others, courtesy of the artist whose spirit lives on in the work. A predecessor, perhaps, to The Purple Rose of Cairo. In the second, "You Killed Elisabeth," the death of a girl and one of her two suitors would seem to have resolved a romantic triangle, but not so... In the third, "Lord Mountdrago," based on a Somerset Maugham story, Orson Welles portrays a British MP who suffers a fearful obsession over the ruin he has caused an opponent. The imagined taunts of his victim eventually make this political pillar crack.

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