This feature length whodunit is set in a small closely-knit Florida town where the state attorney general comes in to solve the killing. Although shot dead in flood of over 40 bullets in the main street of the town, no one saw or heard a thing.

As he investigates the case, the attorney general, who many will recognize from the popular sit-com A Different World, discovers that the victim was a horror of a person and had terrorized the town since he was a boy. Still, determined to get to the bottom of it all, he continues his questionings. But he doesn't get a real lead until he talks to someone outside the town.

Good acting an interesting story, solid directing and great editing make the film easy and enjoyable to watch. It has a good pace, indicative very much of its location setting. Time does not fly by. Most of the characters are not quick tempered. The local sheriff and most of the town's people are mild mannered. All cooperate with the attorney general and seem completely at ease with his questions. All had good reason to kill the dead man and many openly said they wished they had. The time it takes for all this questioning gives a realistic pace and therefore feels to the event.

I like too the director's use of flashback to tell the story of the evilness of the dead man. There is something in most of us that is intrigued by the ugliness and wickedness of others. The director makes full use of this phenomenon to hold the viewer's attention. Just when you are likely to be bored with the questioning phase, he slips in another flashback to some atrocity the dead man committed. And so that you do not leave the theatre feeling completely sick to your stomach, he throws in some more of the questioning after that.

By the end the viewer knows what took place and feels good about the outcome.

It is a film on the importance of sticking together, of having faith, being patient and fighting back.

If you enjoy an episode of Murder She Wrote or Poirot, Dunsmore will certainly appeal to you.

Cathy Stovell