Film Preview – Chichester Observer – Saturday, 12 June 1948

PAVILION, SELSEY. All the suspense, gripping mystery and chilling atmosphere of Joseph Shearing’s best-selling novels comes to the screen of the Pavilion in “MOSS ROSE” on Monday for three days. Belle Adair (Peggy Cummins) is a chorus girl in Edwardian London, but she longs to escape her Shoreditch background and to become a “lady." One morning she is horrified to find her friend Daisy Arrow lying dead, beside, her bed an open Bible and a moss rose. Belle had earlier seen Daisy's wealthy admirer, Michael Drego (Victor Mature), leaving the lodging house where the girls live and she determines to trace him. Before justice is done and the killer unmasked, Belle becomes involved in a series of mysterious murders and almost falls victim the killer herself. With Danny Kaye in the role of the timid milkman who wins, in a series of ludicrous flukes, a world's boxing championship, "THE KID FROM BROOKLYN" completes the week's entertainment.