Hidden Homicide

A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.

Cast

Griffith Jones

as Michael Cornforth

Patricia Laffan

as Jean Gilson

James Kenney

as Oswald Castellan

Bruce Seton

as Bill Dodd

Peter Carver

as Wally Gizzard

Danny Green

as Cliff Darby

Charles Farrell

as Mungo Peddy

Richard Shaw

as Wright

Robert Raglan

as Ashbury

Maya Koumani

as Marian Savage

Reviews

John Chard

Murder At Shinglestrand. Hidden Homicide is directed by Tony Young and adapted to screenplay by Young and Bill Luckwell from the novel "Murder at Shinglestrand" written by Paul Capon. It stars Griffith Jones, James Kenney and Patricia Laffan. Music is by Otto Ferrari and cinematography by Ernest ...

CinemaSerf

"Cornforth" (Griffiths Jones) wakes up, fully clothed, in a strange house in the middle of nowhere. He has no idea how he got there, nor why he has a gun in his hand and why... wait for it... there is a corpse in the kitchen. To add to his confusion, he is joined by two rain-soaked backpackers - "Je...

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