If you want to kill an actor on set, just sneak in real bullets for a shooting scene. It's not foolproof, but it will get the job done.
In "The Crime of Helen Stanley" that's exactly what was done. Helen Stanley (Gail Patrick) was killed during a shooting scene while filming a movie. The initial suspect was her ex-husband, but once he committed suicide he was out of the picture. There were no shortage of suspects as Helen wasn't a very well liked woman. No suspect was guiltier seeming than Lee Davis (Kane Richmond), a cameraman whom she used to date but who was now engaged to her sister. You had to think that he couldn't be guilty because he was in love, and Hollywood never made cold-blooded killers out of people in love.
Trying to solve the case was Inspector Steve Trent (Ralph Bellamy). He followed every clue and, like all movie detectives, he had a nose for who was telling the truth and who was lying.
"The Crime of Helen Stanley" would've been better had I not already seen a murder on a movie set in "The Death Kiss." It was different, but not different enough to distinguish itself.
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