FR #2690 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Graham Greene, Lesley Storm, William Templeton
Cast
Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Plot
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Plot
In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.
