Respectable wife Ruth attempts to conceal her secret past as a criminal from neighbours and from her husband Chris. However, when a neighbour is burgled and Ruth mysteriously disappears, she becomes the police's prime suspect. Husband Chris searches the city for Ruth, in hopes of proving her innocence.
Directed byRalph Thomas OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Thriller, Crime ActorsTrevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen Roles Jess Fenton Rating68% Après avoir quitté le service secret britannique, David Somers (joué par Trevor Howard) trouve des papillons catalogage de travail à la maison de campagne de Nicolas et Jess Fenton. Après l'assassiner d'un garde-chasse locale, la suspicion (à tort) tombe sur leur nièce, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers aide Sophie à échapper à l'arrestation et ils vont sur la course ensemble. Après une course-poursuite de cross-country, ils arrivent à une ville côtière avec l'intention de quitter le pays par bateau. Tout est bien qui finit bien après la véritable identité du meurtrier est révélé.
, 1h35 Directed byCarol Reed, Guy Hamilton OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Thriller, Comedy-drama ActorsRalph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Jack Hawkins, Michèle Morgan, Denis O'Dea, Sonia Dresdel Roles Mrs. Baines Rating75% The film is told through the naive eyes of a diplomat's young son, Phillipe, who idolises his father's butler, Baines. Baines has invented a heroic persona to keep the boy entertained, and often tells him stories of his exotic and daring adventures in Africa and elsewhere, stories such as putting down a native uprising single-handed, killing a man in self-defense, and so on.
, 1h25 Directed byJohn Harlow OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Thriller ActorsSonia Dresdel, Carol Raye, Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Patricia Burke, Charles Victor Roles Julia Trevelyan Rating65% In 1922 in Cornwall, a prodigious young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unable to come to terms with Olwen's death and the guilt of her own role in it, over the years becoming a reclusive, obsessive figure whose main raison d'être is to keep Olwen's memory alive. Olwen's final composition gains her posthumous recognition, and each year on the anniversary of her death it is broadcast on the radio.