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6.5 1h 9m

The Frightened Man

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

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Top Cast

  • Dermot Walsh

    Dermot Walsh

    Julius Rosselli

  • Barbara Murray

    Barbara Murray

    Amanda

  • Charles Victor

    Charles Victor

    Mr. Rosselli

  • John Blythe

    John Blythe

    Maxie Brown

  • Thora Hird

    Thora Hird

    Vera

  • John Horsley

    John Horsley

    Harry Armstrong

  • Michael Ward

    Michael Ward

    Cornelius Hart

  • Annette D. Simmonds

    Annette D. Simmonds

    Marcella

  • Martin Benson

    Martin Benson

    Alec Stone

Overview

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

Rating

6.5 / 10
6 Reviews
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Sep 11, 2022

    This rather cheap and cheerful effort actually has quite a decent, complex, plot and Dermot Walsh ("Julius") and on-screen father Charles Victor ("Rosselli") work well together to create just a little more suspense than usual in this British crime drama. The latter runs an antique shop and, occasionally, fences some stolen goods to help fund his son through Oxford University. The pretty ungrateful son manages to get himself sent down, returns home and basically cleans the old man out - whilst, simultaneously - falling for the lodger "Amanda" (Barbara Murray) with whom he runs off only to fall in with some more substantial crooks who are planning a daring diamond heist. When it all starts to go wrong, and the cops begin to close in, poor old Dad tries to help out his ingrate of a son but is it all just too late? It doesn't hang about, the narrative is well paced and the romance kept to a minimum which really helps this to stay on track. Thora Hird and John Horsley crop up now and again to add a bit of cornflour to the gravy, making for quite a watchable hour, or so.

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