Uneasy Terms is a 1948 British crime thriller film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Michael Rennie, Moira Lister and Faith Brook.

[2] Slim Callaghan is a private eye whose client, Colonel Stenhurst, is murdered, leaving behind a trail of suspects.

Viola, the eldest of the Colonel's three stepdaughters, is the prime suspect, but after wading through clues and romance, Callaghan corners the real culprit.

Vernon Sewell wanted to make a film of Cheyney's Dark Duet but was assigned this instead.

"[4] Sewell said when the film opened Cheyney insisted it would get good reviews "because the press daren't knock me!"