Nightingale House is a hospital with a nursing program. They have a new patient with an abdominal aneurysm admitted for surgery. He's a suspected arms dealer and a top witness for his trial has been killed. Now things are happening at the hospital, a nurse is murdered during an demonstration with Commander Dalgliesh as a witness. This case isn't solved when another nurse is found dead and the arms dealer dies from a second surgery. Are the deaths related, what does the arms dealer have to do with the two student nurses? The case will not be quickly resolved but the questioning of a very egotistical surgeon is very revealing. Dalgliesh acts on a hunch that the surgeon is lying and this pays off with the truth. Extreme rudeness in the questioning by Dalgliesh doesn't cause the surgeon to rise to the bait with an angry outburst.
This film offers a lot of insights into the methods used to obtain information from possible perpetrators. Commander Dalgliesh is never upset, maybe in a hurry but emotion doesn't get in the way. I have also discovered that it is very difficult to guess who is the murderer, you don't have all the clues until much later in the film. 4* (I really liked this movie)
251 min, Mys directed by John Gorrie with Roy Marsden, Joss Ackland, John Vine, Sheila Allen, Liz Fraser, Thelma Whiteley, Andree Evans, Rosalyn Elvin, Natalie Ogle.
Note: Blockbuster 3 1/2*, imdb 7.9 out of 10, 100% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
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