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Eight O'Clock Walk (Original title)
Dates: 1953 (Copyright), 17 May 1954 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Lance Comfort

Synopsis: A London taxi-driver is implicated in the murder of a girl.

Genre:
Legal and Courtroom drama

Subjects:
London, Trials (law), Children, Homicide
Releases
Date: 1953Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 87 mins Length: 7834 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (24)
Production Company/©: British Aviation Pictures, [Production Company]: George King Productions, Producer: George King, Production Manager: Jack Martin, Assistant Director: Pat Kelly, Continuity: Barbara Wainwright, Screenplay: Katherine Strueby, Screenplay: Guy Morgan, From an original story by: Jack Roffey, Gordon Harbord, Cinematographer: Brendan Stafford, Editor: Francis Bieber, Decor: Eric Blakemore, Art Director: Norman Arnold, Dresses: Young Liberty, Wardrobe: Bill Smith, Make-up: Jim Hydes, Hair Dresser: Gladys Weston, Music composed and conducted: George Melachrino, Sound: Cecil Mason, Sound: Red Law, Sound Editor: Guy Howarth, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast (27)
Richard Attenborough (Tom Manning), Cathy O'Donnell (Jill Manning), Derek Farr (Peter Tanner), Ian Hunter (Geoffrey Tanner, Q.C.), Maurice Denham (Horace Clifford), Bruce Seton (D.C.I), Harry Welchman (Mr. Justice Harrington), Kynaston Reeves (Mr. Munro), Lilly Kann (Mrs. Adelina Zunz), Eithne Dunne (Mrs. Evans), Cheryl Molineaux (Irene Evans), Totti Truman Taylor (Cynthia Maude Ribden-White), Robert Adair (Albert Edward Pettigrew), Grace Arnold (Mrs. Higgs), David Hannaford (Ernie Higgs), Sally Stephens (Edith Higgs), Vernon Kelso (superintendent), Robert Sydney (Ted Lane), Max Brimmell (Joe), Humphrey Morton (P.C. Templin), Arthur Hewlett (Reynolds), Philip King (prison doctor), Jean St. Clair (Mrs. Mabel Gurney), Enid Hewitt (Grace), Noël Dyson (gallery regular), Dorothy Darke (charwoman), Bartlett Mullins (Hargreaves)