This week’s April Fools’ mystery movie was the 1964 Woodfall film Girl With Green Eyes, with Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Maire Kean, Arthur O’Sullivan, Julian Glover, T.P. McKenna, Lislott Goettinger, Patrick Laffan and Lynn Redgrave.

Screenplay by Edna O’Brien based on her novel The Lonely Girl.

Music composed and conducted by John Addison.

Played by Sinfonia of London.

Solo oboe Leon Goossens.

Photography by Manny Wynn.

Edited by Brian Smedley-Aston.

Art direction by Ted Marshall.

Location advisor Ralph Brinton.

Assistant director Roy Millichip.

Camera operator Dennis Lewiston.

Sound recordist Robin Gregory.

Assistant sound recordist Tom Buchanan.

Continuity Jane Buck.

Production Secretary Jane Moscrop.

Director of sound Stephen Dalby.

Sound editor Don Challis.

Wardrobe by Barbara Gillett.

Makeup by Bob Lawrence.

Hairstyles by Betty Sherriff.

Construction manager Stan Gale.

Second assistant director Grania O’Shannon.

Production executive Michael Holden.

Associate Producer Leigh Aman.

Executive producer Tony Richardson.

Produced by Oscar Lewenstein.

Directed by Desmond Davis.

Girl With Green Eyes is available from Amazon.

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I picked Girl With Green Eyes as my backup by going through the trades. I was set with my first choice until I discovered that some super fan had uploaded nearly 100 screen caps to IMDB, ensuring that a Google reverse image search would remove any mysteriousness. And yes it is a British film, and they never do well as mystery movies.

I imagine Bosley Crowther didn’t review it at all, but one never knows.

Wow. He raved about it. And Bosley never raves about anything (The New York Times, Aug. 11, 1964):

In case you have worried about the future of Rita Tushingham, the plain-faced little actress with the big eyes, big mouth and pointed nose who was so good in A Taste of Honey, you may set your mind at ease. She is handsomely capitalizing on her odd and wistful looks in the British film Girl With Green Eyes, which came to the Fine Arts yesterday. What is more, she is giving a performance that could win her an Academy Award and that also redounds to the credit of several others connected with the making of the film.

For Girl With Green Eyes is another of those remarkably fresh and natural films that have come from the Woodfall organization, which is sparked by protean Tony Richardson and which has given us such a dazzling range of pictures as A Taste of Honey, Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Tom Jones. While it is not as ambitious or extensive as any one of those, it is a wonderfully tender, touching and humorous little drama of a lonely Irish girl.

For Monday, which is April Fools’ Day, we have an unusually mysterious couple.

Update: This is Rita Tushingham and Peter Finch.

For Tuesday, we have a mysterious woman.

Update: This is Lislott Goettinger

Brain Trust roll call: Jenny M. (mystery movie and mysterious guests).

For “Hm Wednesday,” we have two dapper mystery chaps.

Update: This is Julian Glover, left, and Patrick Laffan.

Brain Trust roll call: Jenny M. (Tuesday’s mystery woman).

For “Aha Thursday,” we have a mysterious woman.

Update: This is Lynn Redgrave.

Note to Sylvia: You’re on the right track!

And for Friday, our mysterious leads.

Update: This is, from left, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave.

Brain Trust roll call: Anne Papineau (mystery movie, Monday’s mysterious couple, Wednesday’s mystery guest No. 2 and Thursday’s mysterious woman), Jenny M. (Thursday’s mysterious woman), Benito (Thursday’s mysterious polka-dot woman), Roget-L.A. (mystery movie and Thursday’s mysterious woman) and Sylvia E. (mystery movie, Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests and Wednesday’s mystery guest No. 1).