Burnt Evidence (1954)
1954 · Feature film · 61 min · dir. Daniel Birt
- Crime
- Mystery
- Drama
Synopsis
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Daniel Birt
- Writer
- Percy Hoskins
- Studio
- A.C.T. Films
- Released
- 1954-07-05
- Running time
- 61 minutes
Cast & crew
- Daniel Birt Director
Jane Hylton
Duncan Lamont
Donald Gray
Meredith Edwards
Cyril Smith
Irene Handl- Hugo Schuster
Kynaston Reeves
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Or "Who Died In That Fire?" · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-11
A melodramatic murder mystery in which there are only two possible answers, The film is played out as the efforts of the police to find out who is dead and how it came about. Jane Hylton and Duncan Lamont are both good as the unlikely married couple at the center of the tragedy. Unlikely because she is charming, stylish and seemingly sophisticated and he is a decent, working class bloke, whose sense of self is caught up with controlling his own destiny, and not working for others. He is a self-employed carpenter, who is not smart enough or hard enough to collect from the poor folk who insist…
