Cast
Jack Hawkins
Oliver Branwell
Arlene Dahl
Sarah Moreton Branwell
Dennis Price
Tracey Moreton
Violet Farebrother
Mrs. Moreton
Ian Hunter
Clive Fisher
Malcolm Keen
Old Abercrombie
Geoffrey Keen
Michael Abercrombie aka Young ...
Patrick Holt
Fred Connor
John Robinson
Berkeley Reckitt
Michael Goodliffe
Detective Insp. Barnes
Martin Lane
Det. Constable Watson
Bernard Miles
Mr. Jerome
Christopher Lee
Charles Highbury
Greta Gynt
Vere Litchen
John Phillips
Willis Croft
Patricia Marmont
Ambrosine
George A. Cooper
Hotel Porter
Rosalind Knight
(uncredited)
Leslie Perrins
Chairman of Tribunal
Ben Williams
Caller (uncredited)
Details
Status
Released
Original language
en
Countries
GB
Reviews
A better than average crime noir that features Jack Hawkins as an insurance investigator drafted in, on Christmas Eve, to investigate a fire at a country house. When he gets there he discovers an old flame (Irene Dahl) married to the owner (Dennis Price). When he dies in a second fire at the house, Hawkins suspects that she was behind it for the insurance cash, but she convinces him not and they marry and all seems straightforward until a blackmailer rears his ugly head and together they have...
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