Top billed cast

1. 

   Ann Todd

   Frances "Frankie" Tribe

2. 

   Eric Portman

   Eddie Tribe

3. 

   Bill Owen

   Ron

4. 

   Maxwell Reed

   Olaf Tyson

5. 

   Edward Rigby

   Bill Shackle

6. 

   Eliot Makeham

   Mr. Walter Bigley

7. 

   Jane Hylton

   Doris

8. 

   Margaret Withers

   Mrs.Bigley

9. 

   John Turnbull

   Superintendent

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09

I reckon this has to be the best outing for Ann Todd ("Frankie") that I've seen. Here she plays the girlfriend of Eric Portman ("Eddie") who is really a hangman, but who doesn't want her to know so pretends to be a salesman to explain his frequent, and often overnight, absences from their home on a barge he has inherited. It's during one of those absences that she finds herself the focus of the unwarranted attentions of the rather uncouth "Olaf" (Maxwell Reed) and... Compton Bennett has created a clever piece of cinema here; we are given much of the bones of the story but have to come to a few...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• river thames
• hangman
• film noir
• british noir