Top Billed Cast
Ann Todd
Frances "Frankie" Tribe
Eric Portman
Eddie Tribe
Bill Owen
Ron
Maxwell Reed
Olaf Tyson
Edward Rigby
Bill Shackle
Eliot Makeham
Mr. Walter Bigley
Jane Hylton
Doris
Margaret Withers
Mrs.Bigley
John Turnbull
Superintendent
Maurice Denham
Inspector
Milton Rosmer
Governor
Lyn Evans
Waterman
Andrew Crawford
Barber shop customer
Garry Marsh
Barber shop customer
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Jul 09 2022
I reckon this has to be the best outing for Ann Todd ("Frankie") that I've seen. Here she plays the girlfriend of Eric Portman ("Eddie") who is really a hangman, but who doesn't want her to know so pretends to be a salesman to explain his frequent, and often overnight, absences from their home on a barge he has inherited. It's during one of those absences that she finds herself the focus of the unwarranted attentions of the rather uncouth "Olaf" (Maxwell Reed) and... Compton Bennett has created a clever piece of cinema here; we are given much of the bones of the story but have to come to a few ...
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
- river thames
- hangman
- film noir
- british noir