The Great Star of "Great Expectations" at His Greatest!
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
- 6.2
- 1947
- Released
- 1h 35m
John Mills
Jim Ackland
Joan Greenwood
Jenny Carden
Edward Chapman
Mr. Peachy
Kay Walsh
Molly Newman
Joyce Carey
Mrs. Vinton
Catherine Lacey
Miss Selby
Adrianne Allen
Joyce Carden
Felix Aylmer
Dr. Martin
Frederick Piper
Det. Insp. Godby
John Boxer
Det. Sgt. Troth
Patrick Holt
Harry Carden
George Benson
Mr. Pope
Jack Melford
WilcoxEsme Beringer
Miss HeapAnn Wilton
Miss Parsons
James Hayter
Garage ManFrank Ling
Booking Office Clerk
Juliet Mills
Child
George Woodbridge
Grey
Philip Ray
Stebbins
Edward Underdown
Passport Official
John Salew
Ticket InspectorReleased
en
- #film noir
- #memory loss
- #british noir
Reviews
I'm not the greatest fan of John Mills, but he is pretty good in this superior crime thriller. He is involved in a motor accident and many years later is still suffering from after effects when, whilst staying at an hotel, he becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of a fellow resident who is killed after she went out on a foggy London night to post a letter. He has no alibi, and his m
Astrology Amnesia. The October Man is directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Eric Ambler. It stars John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Catherine Lacey, Adrianne Allen and Felix Aylmer. Music is by William Alwyn and cinematography by Erwin Hillier. Following a bus crash that killed a friends child that he was treating to a day out, Jim Ackland (Mills) suff