Linda Harrison is about to divorce her husband for desertion so that she will be free to marry a young doctor.Linda Harrison is about to divorce her husband for desertion so that she will be free to marry a young doctor.Linda Harrison is about to divorce her husband for desertion so that she will be free to marry a young doctor.
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Henry B. Longhurst
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- (as Henry Longhearst)
Ian Fleming
- Commander Hewitt
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaWhen Linda leaves Charlie Pott in the pub, she gives her phone number as "Whitehall 1212" and says "if a man answers, hang up." Charlie starts to repeat the number and write it down before looking up with dismay. Contemporary viewers would have readily got the joke: Whitehall 1212 was, famously, the number for Scotland Yard.
- GoofsJust over 30 minutes in, the police visit Harrison' place in broad daylight. She throws the key down from the window, again in broad daylight. When the policeman comes up, he says "Sorry to bother you at this time" and, out of her window, it's dark, with a light on in the window opposite.
- Quotes
Steve Harrison: The sooner we get hold of this, the sooner we get some folding money.
Rita Hanken: I've forgotten what it looks like.
Steve Harrison: The most beautiful sight in the world Rita.
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Neck Stretched
' No, I am afraid she will get her pretty little neck stretched ' is one of the most repugnant statements about hanging a woman if found guilty of murder I have heard on film. I wanted to stop watching, but after this statement during a trial, and the conclusion that Capital Punishment was inevitable my interest grew. The evidence against her was based on circumstantial evidence, and most of the people at the trial including the judge believed such evidence was enough. I wondered how many people had been hung when they were innocent, and when the Judge's son falls foul of the law and the law believes even before a trial that he is guilty based again on similar circumstantial evidence I realised this film was none too subtle about such evidence convicting a man or woman in the early 1950's to death. A brave film for doing this. Rona Anderson, a fine actor, is the man's wife to be and she starts to uncover the true facts. I just wonder how many people went away from this film asking themselves questions about the law of the time, and being a less than an hour B film it moves along at a pace that they would not be bored by. The acting in general was good, and the filming simple showing viewers quite openly that the judicial system was faulty to say the least, and the attitudes concerning Capital Punishment casually brutal. The line of dialogue that I have quoted shows this clearly, with little hope for change in sight in court rooms. It took over a decade more for the abolishment of hanging in the UK.
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- jromanbaker
- Mar 17, 2023
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- Evidence for Hire
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- Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(made at 'London Film Studio Shepperton Middx.')
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Circumstantial Evidence (1952) officially released in Canada in English?
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