Nick Trent
Michael Hogan
Nick Trent
Overview
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
Cast
Nita Daventry
Dorothy Boyd
Nita Daventry
Tony
Richard Cooper
Tony
George Despard
Michael Shepley
George Despard
Evelyn Daventry
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Evelyn Daventry
Trent
Sebastian Shaw
Trent
Lord Yardleigh
Felix Aylmer
Lord Yardleigh
Andrews
Bobbie Comber
Andrews
Cleo Despard
Jane Carr
Cleo Despard
Peter Daventry
Robert Horton
Peter Daventry
Reviews
CinemaSerf
An almost theatrical presentation of an intrigue of adultery, blackmail and murder. A prospective MP (Michael Hogan) promises his electorate a new railway line without banking on the refusal the local landowner (Felix Aylmer) to make the land available. When he is promptly found dead, accusations and suspicions abound (though by this stage the audience knows how he died!). It's quite a fun little story poking fun at the "kissing baby" campaigning style of parliamentarians. No, the script isn't wonderful, but it's an engaging hour from George Pearson and a workmanlike cast.
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