Product Details

• Actors: Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones, Alan Badel
• Directors: David Eady, George More O'Ferrall, Wendy Toye
• Writers: Brett Halliday, Donald B. Wilson, Ian Dalrymple, Roderick Wilkinson, Sidney Carroll
• Format: Black & White, Digital Video Transfer, Widescreen, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: July 25, 1995
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303473288
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,015 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This wonderfully eerie film is based on three mysteries by Somerset Maugham, Roderick Wilkinson, and Brett Halliday. In the first tale, a doomed museum guard is magically transported into his favorite painting. In the second, two friends fall in love with the same woman, who is suddenly killed. The dramatic finale stars Orson Welles as a statesman driven mad by guilt after he destroys his political rival.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, February 3, 2000

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Janette Carmichael (Charleston, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Three Cases of Murder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is classic movies at their best. All three short story's are great, but the last one is a delight to watch over, and over again. Even if your not a Welles fan you'll like these stories (He is only in the last story.)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A towering cult film !, December 11, 2004

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Three Cases of Murder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film contains a trio of separate tales :

The first of them is the very original Ghostly doings in an art gallery . Through a so living picture the guardian of the gallery will go to another level of reality when he decides to cross a forbidden line. The otherness will establish its own codes in this wasteland .

The second tale turns around two suspects when a gril is murdered . Suspense and high caliber tension along the work.

And finally we have to the giant Orson Welles playing a weird role : apowerful lord will be plagued for the memory of a House member he ahs humiliated in public.

This collection of tales have become in a glorious reference for the future cinema connoiseurs . And may be well the inspirational motive for the creators of Twilight Zone ten yeras after .

The powerful and charismatic presence of Welles makes of it a must see , but the other two are watchable works .

What else do you need for let you sweeping for those botabvle British directors in a terror fable?

Chapeaux!

5.0 out of 5 stars A must see!, September 24, 2011

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killer b - See all my reviews

This review is from: Three Cases of Murder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a review of the newly released Odeon all-zone version in the blue & white case. It will run on your player. The Twilight Zone may exist because Rod Serling saw this in 1955. I am at a lost for words in describing just how weird and wonderful the first story is. When the gods of cinema part the clouds for a moment, this is what you reach for. A Masterpiece! The extra isn't bad either...Orson Welles Return To Glennascaul, yet another ghost story, long lost. Picture quality is fine.