

21/03/1957
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Michael Redgrave
as David Graham

Ann Todd
as Honor Stanford

Leo McKern
as Robert Stanford

Paul Daneman
as Brian Stanford

Peter Cushing
as Jeremy Clayton

Alec McCowen
as Alec Graham

Renée Houston
as Mrs. Harker

Lois Maxwell
as Vickie Harker

Richard Wordsworth
as Maxwell - the MP

George Devine
as Barnes - the Editor

Joan Plowright
as Agnes Cole

Ernest Clark
as Under Secretary

Peter Copley
as Prison Chaplain

Hugh Moxey
as Prison Governor

Dickie Henderson
as Comedian

John Chandos
as 1st Journalist

Vernon Greeves
as 2nd Journalist

Arnold Diamond
as 3rd Journalist

Julian Somers
as First Warder

Aubrey Richards
as Prison Gatekeeper

Gwynne Whitby
as Stanford's Housekeeper

Christina Lubicz
as Jennie Cole

Dervis Ward
as 1st Mechanic

David Lander
as 2nd Mechanic

Richard Leech
as
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