Directed by
Carol Reed
From the Novel by
F.L. Green
Screenplay
F.L. Green
R. C. Sherriff
Cinematographer
Robert Krasker
Editor
Fergus McDonell
Production Designer
Ralph W. Brinton
Special Effects
Stanley Grant
Bill Warrington
Music
William Alwyn
Sound
Desmond Dew
Sash Fisher
Main Cast
James Mason
Robert Newton
Cyril Cusack
Kathleen Ryan
F. J. McCormick
William Hartnell
Fay Compton
Robert Beatty
Production
Two Cities Films
Great Britain 1947
116’
35mm, B/N (DCP)
Language
Original English version with Italian subtitles
World Sales
Park Circus Limited
Synopsis
Johnny McQueen, the head of a clandestine political organization in Ulster, robs a business, killing an employee during a scuffle and being seriously wounded in return. Hounded by the police and abandoned by his companions, he tries to escape, dragging himself away in search of help. Very few people are willing to hide him or show any solidarity. He tries to get on a ship with his girlfriend, but the police are hot on his trail. This dramatic chase lasts roughly a dozen hours before Johnny is killed by the police near the port where he was trying to escape. During those same hours, amid a grim, wintery Belfast full of wary police, the escape puts Johnny in contact with a cross-section of humanity, with room for vastly different and contrasting emotions: from hatred to compassion, curiosity, indifference, incomprehension and greed.
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