A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Mai Zetterling
as Mrs. Carol Edwards
Fay Compton
as Mrs. Christopher
Dirk Bogarde
as Stephen Mundy
Robert Flemyng
as Dr. Giles Freeman
Michael Gough
as Maurice Edwards
James Robertson Justice
as Mr. Sine
Joan Rice
as Alma
Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Lord Dearsley
Cyril Chamberlain
as Police Constable
Harold Huth
as Hugh Sainsbury
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This is quite a cleverly conceived drama that does ask us whether, ever, two wrongs might actually make a right. It’s after “Mary” (Shirley Wright) is involved in a road accident that hospital almoner “Mrs. Christopher” (Fay Compton) is called in to comfort the injured woman and finds herself charge...