I Met a Murderer

{{short description|1939 film by Roy Kellino}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = I Met a Murderer

| image = I_Met_a_Murderer.jpg

| caption =

| director = Roy Kellino

| producer = Roy Kellino

| writer = {{ubl|Pamela Mason|James Mason|Roy Kellino}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|James Mason|Pamela Mason|Sylvia Coleridge}}

| music = Eric Ansell

| cinematography = {{ubl|Oswald Morris|Roy Kellino}}

| editing = Fergus McDonell

| studio = Gamma Films

| distributor = Grand National Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1939|03|04|UK|1939|10|01|US|df=y}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

I Met a Murderer is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Kellino and starring James Mason, Pamela Mason, Sylvia Coleridge and William Devlin. A man murders his oppressive wife and flees from the police. He meets a young woman who suspects his identity as the murderer, but conceals this because she wants to use the story for a book.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37431|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114132828/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/37431|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-14|title=I Met a Murderer (1939)}} The film was shot on the Isle of Wight in 1939.{{Cite web|title=Memories of 1939 James Mason movie filmed on the Isle of Wight|url=https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/19007421.memories-1939-james-mason-movie-filmed-isle-wight/|access-date=2021-01-17|website=Isle of Wight County Press|date=17 January 2021 |language=en}}