A steamy period thriller that doesn’t skimp on sex or style.
-Liam Neeson won Best Actor in 1992 for this film at the Cognac Festival du Film Policier
-You may recognize Laura San Giacomo. She later went on to play the satirical character of Maya Gallo on hit TV show Just Shoot Me.
-Critics have hailed it one of the best British thrillers of the 90s. Well worth the watch.
This taut thriller, in the rich tradition of film noir, follows Liam Neeson, a private detective in 1950s England who finds himself the prime suspect when his wife and his client are murdered. Despite his efforts to clear his name, the noose of evidence tightens around him when he becomes enmeshed in a passionate affair with his dead client's mistress.
