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.”

• DirectorJoseph Losey
• Release21 March 1957
• Genre
  Crime / Thriller
• Duration1h 28m
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• Rate
  

  6.521
  48 reviews
• Productions

  Harlequin Productions Ltd