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Violent Moment (U.S. title: Rebound) is a 1959 British B movie drama film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton and Jill Browne. It was film editor Hayers' first film as director. It also marked the debut of Moira Redmond.Michael & Cotter p.157 It was written by Peter Barnes based on the 1956 story "A Toy for Juffy" by Roy Vickers, from his "Department of Dead Ends" series, originally published from 1934. These stories were ‘inverted’ mysteries: the reader knows the identity of the criminal, but the interest lies in how the detective solves the case and featured detectives dusting off cold cases. As with many of the criminals in Vickers’ stories, the protagonist is sympathetically depicted.
The film was released in the cinema with its own credits; later, it was released in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series, with that show's credits.
Picturegoer wrote: "It's a modest, off-the-peg story, short on action, but told with urgency and style. Brook gives a wet-palmed portrayal of a killer and there's good support from Jane Hylton as his flashy mistress and Jill Browne as his secretary."
Picture Show wrote: "Neatly made crime melodrama ... The theme of frustrated paternal love runs throughout this unusual story that is well acted, especially by Lyndon Brook as the murderer."
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "contrived, shabbily acted (apart from Brook) drama."
Noirish wrote, "although the cheapness of the production is very evident and the aspirations are modest, this is by no means a negligible movie."
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