Villain (Original title)Burden of Proof (Working title)
Dates: 1971 (Copyright), 09 September 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Michael Tuchner
Synopsis: Contemporary crime drama which explores the minds and mores of villains.
Genre: Gangster
Releases
Date: 1971Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8781 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1971 (Copyright), 09 September 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Michael Tuchner
Synopsis: Contemporary crime drama which explores the minds and mores of villains.
Genre: Gangster
Releases
Date: 1971Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8781 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Ltd., an Anglo-EMI film: Anglo-EMI, a Kastner/Ladd/Kanter picture: Kastner-Ladd-Kanter, [Production Company]: Winkast Film Productions, Presents: Nat Cohen, Executive Producer: Elliott Kastner, Produced by: Alan Ladd Jr, Jay Kanter, [Production Associate for EMI]: Richard Du Vivier, Production Manager: James M. Crawford, Production Supervisor: Gavrik Losey, Production Assistant: Joyce Herlihy, Producer's Assistant: George Pappas, Assistant Director: Kip Gowans, [2nd Assistant Director]: David Wimbury, Nicholas Hippisley Coxe, Continuity: Enne Watts, [Casting]: Rose Tobias Shaw, Screenplay: Dick Clement, Screenplay: Ian La Frenais, From the novel 'The Burden of Proof' by: James Barlow, Adapted by: Al Lettieri, Director of Photography: Christopher Challis, Camera Operator: John Harris, Film Editor: Ralph Sheldon, Art Director: Maurice Carter, Set Decorator: Andrew Campbell, [Wardrobe Supervisor]: Jimmy Smith, Make Up: Alec Garfath, [2nd Make-up]: Ron Berkeley, Hairdresser: Allan McKeown, Titles by: National Screen Service Ltd., {Filmed in}: Panavision, {Colour by}: Technicolor, Music Composed by: Jonathan Hodge, [Music] Arrangements by: Steve Gray, Sound Recordist: John Bramall, Dubbing Mixer: Len Abbott, Recorded at: EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Dubbing Editor: Don Sharpe, [Studio]: Goldhawk Studios
Cast
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Richard Burton (Vic Dakin), Ian McShane (Wolfe Lissner), Nigel Davenport (Bob Matthews), Donald Sinden (Gerald Draycott), T.P. McKenna (Frank Fletcher), Joss Ackland (Edgar Lowis), Fiona Lewis (Venetia), Cathleen Nesbitt (Mrs Dakin), Elizabeth Knight (Patti), Colin Welland (Tom Binney), John Hallam (Terry), Tony Selby (Duncan), Del Henney (Webb), James Cossins (Brown), Ben Howard (Henry), Anthony Sagar (Danny), Clive Francis (Vivian), Stephen Sheppard (Benny Thompson), Brook Williams (Kenneth), Wendy Hutchinson (Mrs Lowis), Michael Robbins (Barzun), Sheila White (Veronica), Cheryl Hall (Judy), Shirley Cain (Mrs Matthews), Lindy Miller (Gilly), Godfrey James (car lot manager), Bonita Thomas (strip dancer), Leslie Schofield (detective-constable), Paul Hardwick, Michael Munn ([])