Crime, Drama, Mystery
1957
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Top cast:
Michael Redgrave
David Graham
Leo McKern
Robert Stanford
Peter Cushing
Jeremy Clayton
Renée Houston
Mrs. Harker
Lois Maxwell
Vickie Harker
Richard Wordsworth
Maxwell - the MP
George Devine
Barnes - the Editor
Joan Plowright
Agnes Cole
Ernest Clark
Under Secretary
Peter Copley
Prison Chaplain
Arnold Diamond
3rd Journalist
Aubrey Richards
Prison Gatekeeper