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Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright

Released: November 27, 1956

Runtime: 94.0

Popularity Rating: 0.876

The Rank Organisation

United Kingdom

Geoffrey Leavitt Donald Sinden
Meg Elgin Muriel Pavlow
Jack Havoc (aka Johnny Cash) Tony Wright
Tiddy Doll the Gang Leader Bernard Miles
Lucy Cash Beatrice Varley
Asst. Commissioner Oates Alec Clunes
Canon Avril Laurence Naismith
Chief Inspector Luke Christopher Rhodes
Will Charles Victor
Rolly Gripper Thomas Heathcote
Tom Gripper Sam Kydd
Crutches Kenneth Griffith
Duds Morrison Gerald Harper
Detective Sergeant Pickett Wensley Pithey
Uncle Stanley Rose
Police Constable Stratford Johns
Copper Percy Herbert

Directing — Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writing — Novel: Margery Allingham
Writing — Screenplay: Anthony Pelissier