Death in High Heels is a 1947 British crime film directed by Lionel Tomlinson and starring Don Stannard, Elsa Tee and Veronica Rose. It was based on a novel of the same title by Christianna Brand. It was a very early Hammer Films (here Marylebone-Hammer) production and was released through Exclusive Films, Hammer's original incarnation. Its running time was just over 50 minutes. It was last shown on British television on Channel 4 in 1991.
Synopsis
The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury Bond Street shop.
, 1h34 Directed byJesús Franco OriginGerman GenresScience fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Crime ActorsChristopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Richard Greene, Maria Rohm, Shirley Eaton Rating44% In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes. The poison causes blindness and ultimately followed six weeks later by death. Using mind control, he aims the women at Nayland Smith and other key people with political influence. This prevents them from interfering with his own ambitions to prepare millions of "doses" and spread them around the world's major cities and capitals in a plan to gain world domination.