The Case of Charles Peace
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants.
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants.
Valentine Dyall
Storyteller
Michael Martin Harvey
Charles Peace
Chili Bouchier
Katherine Dyson
Bruce Belfrage
Counsel for Prosecution
Ronald Adam
Counsel for Defence
Roberta Huby
Sue Thompson
Peter Forbes-Robertson
William Habron
Kathleen Rooney
Mary
Richard Shayne
Arthur Dyson
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants.
I am always fascinated with real-life detective stories when the police couldn't rely on technology to help solve crime. The fact that Peace was actually sent to jail under an assumed name for another crime and nobody made a connection just shows how much luck was a part of this process as was skill. The acting is a bit wooden, the disguises do test your patience and the script is a little ponderous at times but overall the story has held up quite well 70 years after it was made in 1949.
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