Eyewitness
Eyewitness (also known as Point of Crisis) is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Muriel Box and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock and Richard Wattis. It was Produced by Sydney Box for the Rank Organisation.
Plot
After an argument with her husband, Lucy Church storms out of her house and goes to see a film at the local cinema. While coming back from making a phone call, she stumbles across the office where she witnesses the murder of the cinema manager by two criminals Wade and Barney who are in the process of robbing the cinema's safe. When they pursue her, she is struck by a bus and is taken to hospital. Unable to leave the town until they know what has happened to her, the two robbers head to the hospital to observe her. Meanwhile, her husband Jay Church has grown concerned and scours the town searching for her.
More details
author | Janet Green |
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director | Muriel Box |
genre | thriller |
keywords | cinema disillusion expectant father movie theater operating theatre orderly phone call search shrubbery ward |
producer | Sydney Box |
productionCompany | Rank |
publisher | Rank Organisation |
recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |