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Release year: 1961

Storyline

Art critic Max Aaronson denounces a famous old painting in Arnold Woolf's gallery as a forgery. He says it is not the only one, but shortly after he is killed by a hit-and-run driver.

Top credits

Directors

Max Varnel

Writers

Cast

Ray McAnally — Inspector Sharkey
Catherine Feller — Geneviève Beaujean
Yvonne Buckingham — Vicky Woolf
Mark Singleton — Arnold Woolf

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Did you know

• The French girl Genevieve says that her interview has "gone for a Guiness", a deliberate misquote for the expression "gone for a Burton", giving strength to the theory that the expression originated with a series of adverts for Burton Beer, which featured an empty chair and someone saying "he's gone for a Burton". Of course, this doesn't prove the origin, because Burton Beer may simply have used the pre-existing expression for their own advantage. The expression generally refers to someone having an accident, or even dying.

• The image of Eve is actually based on Botticelli's Birth of Venus.

• Filmed in Ireland.