Blackmailed

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)

Cast

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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...

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