The Last Shot You Hear is an oddly engaging, rather badly made thriller featuring Hugh Marlowe as marriage counselor Charles Nordeck. Nordeck has made a fortune from his best-selling advice books, and has grown to love his wealth more than his wife, pouty blonde Anne (Patricia Haines). Desperate for children, Anne has engaged in an extramarital affair with tall dark and handsome Peter Marriott (William Dysart), but Charles must keep up appearances and refuses to give his unhappy spouse a divorce. Anne and Peter hatch a murder plot, but their plans are overheard by Nordeck's mousy secretary Eileen (Zena Walker), an ambitious young woman who wants in on the plot, too. Can Detective Inspector Nash (John Nettleton) unravel the intrigue, or will the troublemaking trio get away with it?
Hamhandedly written for the screen by Walking With Dinosaurs creator Tim Haines (responsible not only for the line about cold eggs, but also for one character's description of himself as 'psychedelic and trendy'), The Last Shot You Hear also suffers from poor cinematography and clumsy editing. Somehow, though, the film--directed by the usually reliable Gordon Hessler--somehow manages to entertain whilst being thoroughly predictable, at least until the final reel. Comic relief is ably supplied by Thorley Walters and Joan Young, and there's a passable jazz-inflected score from Bert Shefter, the man who created The Bostweeds for Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! It's far from a classic, but fans of obscure British films will probably get some mileage out of The Last Shot You Hear.
Hamhandedly written for the screen by Walking With Dinosaurs creator Tim Haines (responsible not only for the line about cold eggs, but also for one character's description of himself as 'psychedelic and trendy'), The Last Shot You Hear also suffers from poor cinematography and clumsy editing. Somehow, though, the film--directed by the usually reliable Gordon Hessler--somehow manages to entertain whilst being thoroughly predictable, at least until the final reel. Comic relief is ably supplied by Thorley Walters and Joan Young, and there's a passable jazz-inflected score from Bert Shefter, the man who created The Bostweeds for Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! It's far from a classic, but fans of obscure British films will probably get some mileage out of The Last Shot You Hear.
