The Stranger Came Home

Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.

Cast

Paulette Goddard

as Angie

William Sylvester

as Philip Vickers

Patrick Holt

as Job Crandall

Paul Carpenter

as Bill Saul

Alvys Maben

as Joan Merrill

Russell Napier

as Insp. Treherne

Kay Callard

as Jennie

David King-Wood

as Sessions

Jeremy Hawk

as Sgt. Johnson

Patricia Owens

as Blonde (as Pat Owens)

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