Jigsaw

Cracking opening, from writer, producer and director Val Guest, working from a novel by the American police-procedural pioneer Hillary Waugh, at Saltdean near Brighton we meet Moira Redmond, doomed, with her unseen husband, in Jigsaw, 1962, starring Jack Warner and Yolande Donlan.

We’ve just met Sgt. Wilks (Ronald Lewis), dealing with with a burgled estate agent (Brian Oulton) in Brighton, England, both unaware of the murder from the opening scene, calling into HQ where we meet Insp. Fellows (Jack Warner) and his boss (Geoffrey Russell), in Val Guest’s Jigsaw, 1962.

Inspector Fellows (Jack Warner) from Brighton, England, up to London following a lead, visits the Greenwich home of Jean Sherman (Yolande Donlan, wife of the writer, director and producer Val Guest), whom he thought to be the unidentified victim of a murder, in Jigsaw, 1962.

Writer, producer and director Val Guest shooting on location at Saltdean, near Brighton, England, inspector Fellows (Jack Warner) interviews Mrs. Banks (Joan Newell), overseer of a seaside caravan park, about a nearby murder, with a neatly-worked visual exposition technique, in Jigsaw, 1962.