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Bookmark this pageOrdeal by Innocence (1984)
Director: Desmond Davis
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
In this adaptation of what was reputedly Agatha Christie's favourite among her own novels, a scientist (Sutherland) turns up with evidence which would have cleared a tried murderer. Alas, the boy has been hanged, and the family seems more interested in covering up the past than rehabilitating his reputation. Set in the '50s, the film succeeds admirably in catching a feeling of repression and social conformity, and the idea of murder as a means of maintaining respectability rather than for gain or passion. Agatha Christie's creation is finally recovered from Cluedo territory, and provides British cinema with a genuine '50s black thriller. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Desmond Davis
Producer: Jenny Craven
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Miles, Ian McShane, Diana Quick, Annette Crosbie, Brian Glover, Michael Elphick, Phoebe Nicholls, Michael Maloney full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 88 mins
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