Discussion of "Moss Rose"

Moss Rose (1947) is an American period mystery drama directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, and Ethel Barrymore. The supporting cast includes Vincent Price, Rhys Williams, and Patricia Medina. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Marjorie Bowen, based on a true-crime Victorian murder case.

The story is set in Victorian London and centers around chorus girl, Belle Adair (Cummins), whose real name is Rose Lynton. She sees gentleman Michael Drego (Mature) leave her friend Daisy Arrow’s (Margo Woode) apartment moments before she discovers that Daisy has been murdered.

Daisy decides to blackmail Michael thinking he is the murderer and is willing to do almost anything to keep himself from hanging and his family from scandal. Rose’s blackmail plans are quite unusual but Drego agrees to them. Rose begins to have second thoughts when a second murder is committed that is similar to the first.

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