Plot
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)
Cast
as Mrs. Carol Edwards
as Mrs. Christopher
as Stephen Mundy
as Dr. Giles Freeman
as Maurice Edwards
as Mr. Sine
as Alma
as Lord Dearsley
as Police Constable
as Hugh Sainsbury
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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 Jus…