She hid him in her flat. Now she's hiding that from the jury. What could go wrong?
Anne Maitland, a female lawyer, receives an unexpected late-night visit from ex-boyfriend Guy Ransome. She agrees to let him sleep on the sofa but he must leave the next morning. When he returns home he finds that his girlfriend has been murdered. His former lover agrees to defend him without telling the court that he spent the night with her. Complications ensue.
Acting
Rosamund John's steely composure cracking at all the wrong moments
Writing
Tight ethical knots that 1952 censorship made deliciously subtextual
Director
Francis Searle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rosamund John was a wartime screen icon; casting her as a barrister reflected real postwar shifts in women's professional roles, however fictionalized.
Francis Searle directed 40+ B-pictures; this 73-minute efficiency was Hammer Films' bread and butter before they discovered Technicolor blood.
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