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Night Was Our Friend is a British film of genre Drama directed by Michael Anderson with Elizabeth Sellars
Night Was Our Friend (1951)
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Add to a movie listNight Was Our Friend is a 1951 British drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough and Ronald Howard. The title references a line from Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.
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A young woman is acquitted by the jury over the murder of her husband, who died in suspicious circumstances. The film then flashes back to portray the events leading up to his death. Sally Raynor's aviator husband Martin has been missing for two years and is believed dead, during which time she has fallen in love with a local doctor who she plans to marry. When her husband unexpectedly returns from Brazil still alive, she decides to give up Doctor Harper and go back to live with him. Soon her husband's erratic behaviour, brought on by his ordeals, makes her believe he is insane. On one of his wild night time walks, he appears to have killed someone. His wife plans to kill him to protect him from society's punishment, but before she does he commits suicide. Although technically innocent of his death, she is haunted by guilt and even after a jury clears her of murder she is hesitant to murder the Doctor she loves.Actors
Elizabeth Sellars
(Sally)
Michael Gough
(Martin)
Ronald Howard
(John Harper)
Marie Ney
(Emily Raynor)
Edward Lexy
(Arthur Glanville)
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