The Long Dark Hall (1951)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Directors:

Reginald Beck
Anthony Bushell

Writers:

W.E. Fairchild (additional scenes and dialogue)
Nunnally Johnson (writer)

Release Date:

15 September 1952 (Denmark)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Arthur Groome works in London and has a devoted family in Richmond. Shortly after he starts seeing a...

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Based On Novel

Cast

Rex Harrison	...	Arthur Groome
Lilli Palmer	...	Mary Groome
Tania Heald	...	Sheila Groome
Henrietta Barry	...	Rosemary Groome
Dora Sevening	...	Mary's mother
Ronald Simpson	...	Mary's father
Raymond Huntley	...	Chief Insp. Sullivan
William Squire	...	Sgt. Cochran (as William Squires)
Ballard Berkeley	...	Police Supt. Maxey
Anthony Dawson	...	The Man
Denis O'Dea	...	Sir Charles Morton
Anthony Bushell	...	Clive Bedford
Henry B. Longhurst	...	Judge (as Henry Longhurst)
Patricia Cutts	...	Rose Mallory (as Patricia Wayne)
Meriel Forbes	...	Marjorie Danns

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Sweden:15

Company:

Cusick International Films Inc.

Trivia:

First film of William Squire.

Circumstantial evidence can convict

Rex Harrison stars as Arthur Groom, a man on trial for murdering a stage girl. This girl was young and became an obsession of Groom. The timeline becomes very critical as Groom claims that he spoke to a "large Italian man" at 10:00pm, the very time when the girl was murdered. All the circumstantial evidence such as the knife, seen there, lied about being in neighborhood and knowing the girl. No one can find his alibi. Trouble is as Groom tells everyone on the witness stand "I'm telling the truth but no one believes me, trouble is that it doesn't sound true, what good is the truth when it doesn't sound true." Lilli Palmer is Mary Groome, his faithful wife that stands with Arthur but will her marriage vow of "until death" be tested.