Tom Penney
Donald Houston
Tom Penney
Overview
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
Cast
Susan Hamble
Susan Shaw
Susan Hamble
Mick Jordan
Robert Brown
Mick Jordan
Amy Jordan
Vanda Godsell
Amy Jordan
Jeff Stribling
Peter Byrne
Jeff Stribling
Inspector Harmer
Richard Warner
Inspector Harmer
May
Christine Finn
May
James Gore
Thomas Heathcote
James Gore
Margaret Anderson
Grandmother
Katie Johnson
Grandmother
Leonard White
Alfred Hamble
Carl Bernard
Alfred Hamble
Reviews
CinemaSerf
Now I can imagine a long rope; or a thick rope - but can a rope actually be "large"? Anyway, enough of my pedantry. Donald Houston returns to his rural English village after being in prison for assaulting a women. When another local woman is murdered, he is the obvious suspect and must prove his innocence whilst avoiding the pursuing police and angry villagers. It is quite a fast moving story, and one of the few you will ever see that demonstrates any form of English social disobedience - the villagers almost descend into a lynch mob - of the constabulary. I thought it obvious who the real killer was from early on, but Wolf Rilla keeps it all moving well until a rather soppy, violin-inspired, conclusion.
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