Ann Todd

Norman Wooland

Ivan Desny

Leslie Banks

Elizabeth Sellars

André Morell

Barbara Everest

Susan Stranks

Patricia Raine

Eugene Deckers

Barry Jones

Jean Cadell

Irene Browne

Kynaston Reeves

John Laurie

Douglas Barr

David Lean

Stanley Haynes

Nicholas Phipps

William Alwyn

Guy Green

Clive Donner

Geoffrey Foot

Margaret Furse

Biddy Chrystal

Stuart Freeborn

Paul Rabiger

John Wilcox

George Pollock

Norman Spencer

John Bryan

George Paternoster

Drama

Crime

Mystery

Madeleine

Cineguild

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

United Kingdom

English

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Ann Todd becomes better as she plays herself into the character of a rather devious and unscrupulous girl in this adaptation of a famous Glasgow murder (or, perhaps that should be murrrrdurrrr) tale from 1857. "Madeleine" is the daughter in a well-to-do family whose father (a seriously authoritarian Leslie Banks) can't quite figure out why she won't marry a suitable young man - unawares that she has been having a fling with an equally unscrupulous Frenchman who has his sights set on her family's wealth. His attempts at blackmail terminally backfire and before long she is on trial for his killing. The subsequent courtroom drama features strong performances from Barry Jones and André Morell as the barristers and this helps lift this rather slow-moving drama along to quite a gripping denouement (an unique peculiarity of the Scottish legal system). Maybe not David Lean's best or most notable work, but you can see his hallmark style all over this. (PS: keep an ear out for a wonderfully presbyterian performance from John Laurie - you will recognise his voice long before he comes into shot).

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Madeleine

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