Presumably there are some daytime scenes in the film but it appears mostly to the set in the dark of the evening, which mirrors the dark mind of discharged mental patient Jim Ackland as he tries desperately to return to a steady, normal life. He is helped by a woman he meets through his work as a chemist, the lovely Jenny Carden, and things seem to be going well until a murderer in the vicinity throws everything awry. After all Ackland knew the victim Molly as she was a fellow boarder at the residential hotel he was staying in, he lent her money, he was walking on the common when the crime took place and of course he has had mental trouble, argue the police, so he must be guilty of the murder. But is he?
It's a fine film full of noir atmosphere with a gripping plot. John Mills as the troubled Ackland gives one of his career best performances and the rest of the cast are perfect in their roles, though some having one scene only including veteran Sidney James as 'Man Walking Across Bridge'! I'd give a special mention though to Edward Chapman as Peachy whose quiet malevolence was quite unnerving.
It's a fine film full of noir atmosphere with a gripping plot. John Mills as the troubled Ackland gives one of his career best performances and the rest of the cast are perfect in their roles, though some having one scene only including veteran Sidney James as 'Man Walking Across Bridge'! I'd give a special mention though to Edward Chapman as Peachy whose quiet malevolence was quite unnerving.