At the height of her Hollywood stardom, glamorous girl-next-door Terry Moore starred in Guy Green’s Portrait of Alison (US: Postmark for Danger), an intricate murder mystery co-scripted by director Ken Hughes and based on a BBC television series with a plot that unravels coherently if not entirely satisfactorily. While Moore’s character doesn’t enter the story until the second act (except in the form of a painting), Robert Beatty stars as painter Tim Forrester, whose friend, model, and once-lover Jill Stewart (Josephine Griffin), just engaged to the wealthy Henry Carmichael (Allan Cuthbertson), is found dead in Tim’s bedroom when he arrives home one night, the intruder also having defaced his latest painting of a woman who recently died in a car crash with Tim’s journalist brother in Italy. While this sets up the central mystery, the plot is anything but straightforward, involving a character’s “resurrection” from the dead, a continental jewel smuggling syndicate called the Arlington Ring, a murderous fiancée, blackmail, suicide, a mysterious postcard scrawled with invisible ink, and Tim’s coming to violent blows with yet another brother, the pilot Dave Forrester (William Sylvester). Geoffrey Keen, who seems to have been born to play Scotland Yard investigators, plays Inspector Colby, who targets Tim as the prime suspect from day one. With so many moving parts, Green does a nice job pacing the story and its twists for steady tension, even if the final act might seem a bit rushed to some.