Unless they pay, the world will know their secrets!
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)
- 2.7
- 1951
- Released
- 1h 25m
Mai Zetterling
Mrs. Carol Edwards
Fay Compton
Mrs. Christopher
Dirk Bogarde
Stephen Mundy
Robert Flemyng
Dr. Giles Freeman
Michael Gough
Maurice Edwards
James Robertson Justice
Mr. Sine
Joan Rice
Alma
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Lord Dearsley
Cyril Chamberlain
Police Constable
Harold Huth
Hugh Sainsbury
Nora Gordon
Sine's Housekeeper
Charles Saynor
Police Constable - Giles' CarDerrick Penley
PatrickPeter Owen
Chief PrinterDennis Brian
Sub-Editor
Arthur Hambling
Inspector CaninShirley Wright
Mary
Bruce Seton
Supt. CroweMichael Ingham
Crowe's Assistant
Johnnie Schofield
Maurice's Taxi Driver
Marianne Stone
Maggie
Betty Cooper
Giles' AssistantVernon Greeves
Hugh's SecretaryLillian Shaw
Bathing Beauty Competitor
Helen Goss
Matron
Constance Smith
Nurse AnneDorothy Bramhall
Mary's Day NurseJoan Schofield
Mary's Night Nurse
Edie Martin
Mrs. Porritt - a PatientValentine Dunn
Nurse in Corridor
John Horsley
Maggie's Doctor
Ballard Berkeley
Dr. McCormickPatricia Glyn
1st Nurse in HallSally Lahee
2nd Nurse in HallDon Liddel
DoctorReleased
en
- #victim
- #blackmailer
Reviews
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 charged with delivering an envelope. Inadvertently, she walks in on the nasty “Sine” (James Robertson Just