Bogarde plays a man whom we (and the little, tow-headed boy) discover in a cellar, standing over the body of a man he has just killed. The dead man, as we find out, was his wife's lover ("why do you think I married a sailor to begin with?" she asks him when he confronts her in their one scene together). The boy drops his teddy bear, and Bogarde grabs him--gently--and they start...running. As it turns out, and as Chris (Bogarde) knows right away, somehow, the little boy doesn't want to be found--either. He's being lashed by his adoptive parents--who look like such nice, middle-class English people.

Starring:

Alec Finter, Denis Webb, Dirk Bogarde, Douglas Blackwell, Elizabeth Sellars, Ewen Solon, Frederick Piper, Geoffrey Keen, Gerald Anderson, Gerald Case, Grace Arnold, Ian Hunter, Jack Lambert, Jack Stewart, Joe Linnane, Julian Somers, Katharine Blake, Kay Walsh, Leonard White, Molly Urquhart, Patrick Westwood, Sam Kydd

Genre:

Crime, Drama