Change Partners (film)

Change Partners is a 1965 British crime drama directed by Robert Lynn and starring Anthony Dawson, Zena Walker and Kenneth Cope.^[1] It was written by Donal Giltinan and made at Merton Park Studios originally as a Warner-Pathé release, prior to being included as a part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries.^[2]

Change Partners
Directed by	Robert Lynn
Written by	Donal Giltinan
Produced by	Jack Greenwood
Starring	Anthony Dawson Zena Walker Kenneth Cope
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Derek Holding
Music by	Bernard Ebbinghouse
Production company	Warner-Pathé
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date	1965 (1965)
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Ben Arkwright and (Cedric) Ricky Gallen are partners in the firm of Arkwright and Gallen; however, Ricky is having an affair with Ben's wife, Anna. Anna talks Ricky into killing her alcoholic husband, but things do not go according to plan.

Cast

• Anthony Dawson as Ben Arkwright
• Zena Walker as Anna Arkwright
• Basil Henson as (Cedric) Ricky Gallen
• Kenneth Cope as Joe Trent
• Jane Barrett as Betty Gallen
• Pamela Ann Davy as Jean
• Peter Bathurst as McIvor
• Graham Ashley as police constable
• Josephine Pritchard as Sally Morrison
• James Watts as waiter
• Vivien Lloyd as secretary

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Zena Walker is no Bette Davis, but then director Robert Lynn is no William Wyler. None the less, she puts up an intelligent display of growing malevolence in this absurdly compelling, up-dated Warners-type melodrama, and is virtually the film's only raison d'étre. Actors like Basil Henson and Anthony Dawson haven't the resource to subdue the stilted, stereotyped dialogue, and the direction only rises above the mediocre in two chillingly staged murders, and one or two nicely composed shots of Zena Walker machinating."^[3]