Eight O’Clock Walk (1954)

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Country: UK
Genres: Crime, Drama
Release: 1954-05-10
Director: Lance Comfort
Writers: Jack Roffey , Gordon Harboard , Katherine Strueby , Guy Morgan
Language: English
Stars: Richard Attenborough (1923–2014) , Cathy O’Donnell , Derek Farr , Ian Hunter , Maurice Denham , Bruce Seton , Harry Welchman , Kynaston Reeves , Lily Kann , Eithne Dunne
Runtime: 87 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Eight O'Clock Walk (United Kingdom) , Eight O'Clock Walk (United States of America) , Eight O'Clock Walk , Skyggen ved floden (Denmark) , エイト・オクロック・ウォーク (Japan) , Eight O'Clock Walk (Canada) , Eight O'Clock Walk (Australia) , Plimbarea de la ora opt (Romania) , Aprilmordet (Sweden)
Plot: Taxicab driver Tom Banning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl as an April-fool prank. The girl is later found murdered and Manning is picked up by Scotland Yard for questioning and is later arrested and charged with murder. The trial is scheduled for London's Old Bailey. Manning's wife, Jill, convinced he is innocent, fights for and wins the sympathy of Council-for-the-Defense Peter Tanner, and he is opposed at the trial by his father, prosecuting-attorney Geoffrey Tanner. The trail is presided over by Justice Harrington, whose wife is in the hospital undergoing an operation. It soon becomes evident, following the testimony of prosecution-witness Horace Clifford, that the evidence points to Manning's guilt. During a recess, Peter Tanner sees Clifford outside the courthouse, giving candy to a young girl. Farr identifies the candy as being the same brand as that found on the murdered girl. The judge's wife has died, but the trial resumes with Tanner recalling Clifford for cross-examination.
IMDB:tt0044580