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"TERRIFIC! Greene's movie-friendliness is in full cry."
— Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

About

United Kingdom, 1947
Director: John Boulting
Producer: Roy Boulting
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley
Screenwriter: Graham Greene, Terence Rattigan
Based on the novel by Graham Greene
Cinematography: Harry Waxman
Music: Hans May
Genre: Drama, Crime
Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Language: English
Running Time: 92 minutes

Synopsis:
Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough), small-time crook, murders his rival in order to consolidate his power. The police believe it's a suicide, but Ida Arnold (Hermione Baddely) thinks otherwise and starts her own investigation.

Reviews and Quotes 2

"Attenborough, silent, calculating, pale, and unblinking, offers one of the cinema's most convincing embodiments of paranoia and violence."
— David Denby, The New Yorker

"A REDISCOVERED CLASSIC!
A NOIR MASTERPIECE!"
— The Newark Star-Ledger

"The exquisitely rendered atmosphere of desolation in this moody 1947 classic hasn't dated one bit."
— New York Magazine