Mark Burden Another reviewer states that this film has only been shown once on television in UK - I disagree with this as my archives hold a DVD copy of a VHS tape made of a broadcast on 01/09/2002 by C5, and I am confident in stating that this film was also broadcast on 02 or 03/10/1998 also by C5.Most of the characters in this film conform to stereotypes, and the dilemma is deciding which gender comes off worse: we see pretty Jean (Ingrid Hafner), who plans to leave doting husband Harry (Peter Halliday) on their wedding anniversary and flee the country with the proceeds of her heroin trafficking; Harry's harridan mother (Joan Heath); the omnipresent nosy next-door-neighbour Edna Jones (Patricia Burke); the inconvenient local church restoration fund collector (Barbara Lott) and her spooky acolyte; and, best of all, the casualty sister who tears Jean's Elastoplast off with barely concealed glee.The men don't fare any better: there's Harry himself, who decides that the best course of action when finding a corpse in his bathroom is to pull up the living room floorboards to create an impromptu grave; a comedy lower middle manager husband of aforementioned nosy neighbour; a comedy dodgy builders' merchant complete with dodgy dozy Steven Berkoff lookalike sidekick; a blind piano tuner (Arthur Hewlett); a young piano student who seems to be mute (but is probably only voiceless here to save actor's fees) and, finally, Patrick Jordan as a plain clothes detective suffering from virtual brain death.All comes right in the end though, with sexy Jean probably going to the gallows for murder - all's well that ends well - Result! 10/10 MJB

John Kemp Coming to this film only eleven years (!) after Chris Gaskins' review, his comment "The piano tuner being blind is a little far fetched though" stirred a memory,so I looked online and saw that there is indeed an Association of Blind Piano Tuners. It may be an edition of QI that I am remembering, and I believe that Stephen Fry said that there is no authoritative figure of the number of UK piano tuners. My education is not solely derived from TV, I hasten to add.

Leofwine_draca I really liked this unusually-plotted British thriller, which is full to the brim of suspense and black comedy which really makes it work. It's one of those 'hide the corpse' type tales (the South Korean effort A HARD DAY was similar but far more elaborate) with a distinctly British slant to it. Peter Halliday plays an ordinary husband who makes a living as a music teacher. He returns to his home in the suburbs one day to find his wife missing and a bloodied corpse in the bathroom. What better way to resolve the situation than to bury the corpse under his living room floor? That's the plot in a nutshell, but the surprisingly humorous execution is what makes this really work. Halliday is a delight as the increasingly stressed out protagonist, and I was delighted by the typically English way he keeps getting interrupted in his work by all sorts of people, particularly Patricia Burke's nosy neighbour. The eventual solving of the mystery is a little ahead of its time (I don't remember cocaine being utilised in British films too much during this time) but it's the execution that makes this little film shine.

kidboots "Dilemma" is a beaut little crime gem penned by Pip and Jane Baker who went on to write scripts for "Dr. Who". Surprisingly it had only a limited initial release (and I do mean limited) in Yorkshire and has only been shown once on English TV - it really deserves to be better known. The sparse showings may have had something to do with the fact that none of the players went on to anything of importance, although Ingrid Hafner was in the original series of "The Avengers" but left the show when offered the role in "Dilemma" (silly girl, it was a pretty thankless role with her only appearing at the beginning and at the end) and Peter Halliday whose face is familiar through countless TV shows.Hitting you initially with an upbeat jazz score, this nifty but bizarre little thriller has loving husband coming home after work only to discover a man's body in the bathroom and his wife missing. (She has already been seen fleeing from the house in disarray over the credits). He is a teacher, just starting on holidays ("you lucky teachers with all your holidays" says busy body neighbour Mrs. Jones whose peering into windows and popping around with cups of tea give the movie some of it's thrills)!! Everything points to Jean (Hafner) being the murderess as he finds a bloodied apron and a broken glass in the laundry basket, so of course he does the sensible thing - no, not call the police!! but dispose of the body under some loose floorboards in the living room.In the middle of all this his mother comes around and their heart to heart proves there may be a few chinks in Harry's "idyllic" marriage. His mother has never approved of Jean and what's more she doesn't approve of Harry much either citing that at 32 his father was already a headmaster while Harry is content to just plod along with no ambition.You think you know where this movie is headed but you don't - things come to a head when Harry pops into the local hardware centre to buy cement and soon after the police visit the same centre asking questions about an abandoned car and it's criminal owner, whether he had popped into the shop - it seems the shop owner hasn't always been on the up and up!!! Meanwhile Jean has been to the hospital to see about her cut hand and is now in a tizz down at the bank - she can't find her security box key (she dropped it in the garden when she fled) and she is desperate to get the box open!! The police's questions about "suspicious acting people" bring them to Harry's door and the ending is packed with accusations with the police initially loth to reveal why they are interested in this man but now revealing he is a known drug dealer who sets up housewives in well to do suburbs to act as carriers!!Bryanston Studios had a small but prestigious distribution run starting with "The Battle of the Sexes" and "The Entertainer" and ending with "The System" with Oliver Reed. It was formed by Michael Balcon from the ashes of the defunct Ealing Studios.Highly Recommended.