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The October Man is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. A man is suspected of murder, and the lingering effects of a brain injury he sustained in an earlier accident, as well as an intensive police investigation, make him begin to doubt whether he is innocent.
The October Man: Directed by Roy Ward Baker. With John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh. When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
Feb 21, 2020 · The October Man is a 1947 British film noir starring John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Carey, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh , written and produced by novelist Eric Ambler. The film was made at Denham Studio in Buckinghamshire, England, and location shooting was done at Paddington Station in London.
Nov 19, 2018 · Mystery Thriller Full Movie | The October Man (1947) | Retrospective. Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl...
The survivor of a bus crash becomes a murder suspect.
John Mills is the "October Man" in this small 1947 British film costarring Joan Greenwood. Mills plays Jim Ackland, a man involved in a tragic train accident that killed the child of a friend (actually played by Juliet Mills) he was returning to town.
Overview. Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed. Eric Ambler. Novel, Screenplay. Roy Ward Baker.
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London fog and rushing trains create an ominous atmosphere in Ray Ward Baker’s The October Man, a beautifully shot British crime film that captures the American noir ethos and aesthetic better than most of its peers. After spending months in the hospital recovering from brain damage caused by a bus accident, Jim Ackland (John Mills) is ...
Jan 23, 2024 · The October Man 1947 colorized (John Mills) A chemist (John Mills) suffering PTSD from a traumatic brain injury comes under suspicion of the murder of an acquaintance (Kay Walsh) and the pressure of proving his innocence threatens to cause a relapse of his mental illness.
