Crime · Thriller · Mystery
Director: Joseph Losey
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Michael Redgrave
David Graham
Ann Todd
Honor Stanford
Leo McKern
Robert Stanford
Paul Daneman
Brian Stanford
Peter Cushing
Jeremy Clayton
Alec McCowen
Alec Graham
Renée Houston
Mrs. Harker
Lois Maxwell
Vickie Harker
Richard Wordsworth
Maxwell - the MP
George Devine
Barnes - the Editor
Joan Plowright
Agnes Cole
Ernest Clark
Under Secretary
Peter Copley
Prison Chaplain
Hugh Moxey
Prison Governor
Dickie Henderson
Comedian
John Chandos
1st Journalist
Vernon Greeves
2nd Journalist
Arnold Diamond
3rd Journalist
