I think about halfway through this movie, I decided it just didn't make sense. Our heroine hails from London, visits a small town in the NE USA to hunt for a lost locket half, and immediately breaks into the town hall at night looking for archives that should help her in her search. Of course, there are security alarms that tip off the town sheriff who arrives, arrests her, and then gets involved in the locket search. Make sense to you?
Then we get the feeling that someone is stalking our heroine and reading her private notes, probably learning about the locket and hoping to discover the valued item first. This "mystery" is pretty easily explained when the culprit is caught on another illegal (attic, this time) search & she confesses everything previously denied because of a bluffed fingerprint identification (which isn't true). After all is said and done, the locket is found (finally) & the sheriff and heroine somehow fall in love and she stays in the small town to start her antique business and be with her sheriff.
The production values are pretty good except for one glaring exception: lighting and camera work on black actors aren't up to the challenge. It is as though we really don't know how to photograph dark-skinned actors in such a way as to see their expressions and complexions realistically. Still makes no sense.
Then we get the feeling that someone is stalking our heroine and reading her private notes, probably learning about the locket and hoping to discover the valued item first. This "mystery" is pretty easily explained when the culprit is caught on another illegal (attic, this time) search & she confesses everything previously denied because of a bluffed fingerprint identification (which isn't true). After all is said and done, the locket is found (finally) & the sheriff and heroine somehow fall in love and she stays in the small town to start her antique business and be with her sheriff.
The production values are pretty good except for one glaring exception: lighting and camera work on black actors aren't up to the challenge. It is as though we really don't know how to photograph dark-skinned actors in such a way as to see their expressions and complexions realistically. Still makes no sense.