In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.
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Henri Vidon
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- (as Henry Vidon)
- Director
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- TriviaAt 51m 50s - the word "pixelated", but this is a word that was coined long after this film was made - when computer screens came along having "pixels", a contraction of picture elements. Actually, they say "pixilated", meaning behaving in a pixie-like manner, whimsical, mildly insane, bewildered.
- GoofsAgnes claims she saw someone walking on the road, and the other characters claim the road was not visible from her window - while the camera shows the road from her window just beyond her front gate.
- Quotes
[Last lines]
Hotel Clerk: Will you be coning back again Mr Madison ?
John Madison: [Looks across to Vicky and smiles] Oh I'll be visiting again quite soon I think.
[They turn and leave]
Hotel Clerk: [Says to himself] Well, things certainly move quickly when there's a stranger in town.
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Nice Directorial Debut For George Pollock
An American composer living in a small English town commits suicide.... apparently. A month later, Alex Nicol shows up. He's a friend of the dead man's uncle, here to find out what happened, take a picture of the grave, that sort of thing. People are generally helpful, except for the local drunk, who picks a fight. He's about to leave, when something changes his mind. The locals realize he suspects murder, and they close ranks against him.
It's a nice atmospheric movie most of the way through, although the ending seems pretty random. There are a couple of nice performances: Mona Washbourne is a lot of fun as the local spinster who writes poetry and brew parsnip wine; Hal Osmond has a fine small role as a bored bar man who chats with Nicol and expresses regret at not having said something that might have prevented the presumed suicide. It's a decent first directorial effort by George Pollock, who had spent 20 years as an Assistant Director, including working for David Lean in the mid-1940s and as Second Unit Director of THE THIRD MAN. Pollock would direct for about ten years; his best remembered stuff was the Margaret Rutherford "Miss Marple" comedy-mysteries. He would work with Kubrick on special effects for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and die in 1979, aged 72.
It's a nice atmospheric movie most of the way through, although the ending seems pretty random. There are a couple of nice performances: Mona Washbourne is a lot of fun as the local spinster who writes poetry and brew parsnip wine; Hal Osmond has a fine small role as a bored bar man who chats with Nicol and expresses regret at not having said something that might have prevented the presumed suicide. It's a decent first directorial effort by George Pollock, who had spent 20 years as an Assistant Director, including working for David Lean in the mid-1940s and as Second Unit Director of THE THIRD MAN. Pollock would direct for about ten years; his best remembered stuff was the Margaret Rutherford "Miss Marple" comedy-mysteries. He would work with Kubrick on special effects for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and die in 1979, aged 72.
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- boblipton
- Dec 3, 2019
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- Also known as
- Stranger in Town
- Filming locations
- Ye Olde Greene Manne pub, London Road, Batchworth Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK(John talks to Mrs Woodham as she gets off the bus)
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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