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Eight O'Clock Walk is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lance Comfort released in USA on 29 april 1955 with Richard Attenborough
Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
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Add to a movie listEight O'Clock Walk is a 1954 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr and Maurice Denham. Its plot involves a taxi-driver who is tried for the murder of a young girl on a bomb site. Based on a true story, Eight o’Clock Walk is an anti-capital punishment film (the title refers to the hour at which executions were traditionally carried out) which points out the danger of circumstantial evidence resulting in the death of a mistakenly accused prisoner, it is only by good fortune that the film’s innocent protagonist gets away in this case – and the unstated message is clearly that not everyone might be so lucky.
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Just-married taxi driver Thomas Lesley ‘Tom’ Manning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl who says that she has lost her dog. The kind-hearted Manning gives her his handkerchief to dry her tears. She then runs off taunting Manning as an April-fool prank. He stumbles and raises a fist at her – and this is witnessed by Mrs Zunz.Actors
Richard Attenborough
(Thomas Leslie Manning)
Cathy O'Donnell
(Jill Manning)
Derek Farr
(Peter Tanner)
Ian Hunter
(Geoffrey Tanner)
Maurice Denham
(Horace Clifford)
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