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The Frightened Man
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
- Original title
- The Frightened Man
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Sep 11, 2022 · via TMDB
This rather cheap and cheerful effort actually has quite a decent, complex, plot and Dermot Walsh ("Julius") and on-screen father Charles Victor ("Rosselli") work well together to create just a little more suspense than usual in this British crime drama. The latter runs an antique shop and, occasionally, fences some stolen goods to help fund his son through Oxford University. The pretty ungrateful son manages to get himself sent down, returns home and basically cleans the old man out - whilst, simultaneously - falling for the lodger "Amanda" (Barbara Murray) with whom he runs off only to fall in with some more substantial crooks who are planning a daring diamond heist. When it all starts to go wrong, and the cops begin to close in, poor old Dad tries to help out his ingrate of a son but is it all just too late? It doesn't hang about, the narrative is well paced and the romance kept to a minimum which really helps this to stay on track. Thora Hird and John Horsley crop up now and again to add a bit of cornflour to the gravy, making for quite a watchable hour, or so.
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Dermot Walsh
Julius Rosselli
Barbara Murray
Amanda
Charles Victor
Mr. Rosselli
John Blythe
Maxie Brown
Thora Hird
Vera
John Horsley
Harry Armstrong
Michael Ward
Cornelius Hart
Martin Benson
Alec Stone
Ballard Berkeley
Inspector Bligh
Desmond Davis
Clapper Loader
Monty Berman
Director of Photography
Robert Asher
Assistant Director
John Gilling
Director
Monty Berman
Producer
Robert S. Baker
Producer
John Gilling
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