When the film was released, The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, praised the film, writing, 'Readers of thriller fiction have been talking for quite some time about a writer called Joseph Shearing, whose many period mysteries are said to have a flavor and distinction all their own. The property lost $1,300,000 net.' Critical response Our picture was not as good as the original script and the casting was atrocious. Zanuck called it 'a catastrophe, for which I blame myself. The film was a commercial disappointment. 'I was terrified of her until one day between takes she waddles up and whispers, ‘Got a smoke?’' Reception Box-office 'Ethel Barrymore was in it', Vincent Price said. The film was immediately assigned to Peggy Cummins, who had been fired from Forever Amber. Stuart Holmes as Pompous English Colonel (uncredited)Ģ0th Century Fox announced they had paid their highest ever price for the screen rights to a 1934 novel by Marjorie Bowen for Moss Rose, but did not specify how much.John Goldsworthy as Minister (uncredited).Gerald Oliver Smith as Hotel Clerk (uncredited).Billy Bevan as White Horse Cabby (uncredited).Rhys Williams as Deputy Inspector Evans.Peggy Cummins as Belle Adair aka Rose Lynton.Then another murder is committed in similar circumstances. The woman becomes friends with the man's mother, Lady Margaret Drego, and his fiancée, Audrey Ashton, but her peace is disturbed when Inspector Clinner, played by Vincent Price, arrives to question them further about the murder. Instead of accepting money she demands to be invited to the man's stately home to experience the life of a lady.

Set in Victorian London, the story concerns a music hall chorus girl, Belle Adair, aka Rose Lynton, who blackmails a gentleman, Michael Drego, after seeing him leave the house where another dancer, Daisy Arrow, was found murdered. It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel Moss Rose by Marjorie Bowen based on a real-life Victorian murder case. Moss Rose is a 1947 American film noir mystery film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature and Ethel Barrymore.

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