John Ireland

Susan Stephen

Cyril Shaps

Timothy Beaton

Patrick McAlinney

Kevin Stoney

Ian Fleming

Raymond Rollett

Frederick Piper

Maureen Beck

Denis Holmes

Audrey Nicholson

Cavan Malone

Martin Carthy

Annette Carell

Ray Austin

Shirley Cain

Patsy Smart

C. Denier Warren

Brian Clemens

Max Varnel

Edward J. Danziger

Harry Lee Danziger

Bill LeSage

Walter J. Harvey

Spencer Reeve

Norman G. Arnold

Elsie Alder

Richard Mills

Brian Taylor

John Draper

Ted Lewis

W. Anson Howell

Sydney Wiles

John Shinerock

Thriller

Crime

Return of a Stranger

Danziger Productions Ltd.

United Kingdom

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John Ireland has been imported for this rather routine crime thriller. He is "Ray", happily married to "Pam" (Susan Stephen), and newly resident in a small village with their small son. Not long after they arrive, she notices a strange man watching them. Not unsurprisingly, she gets a bit spooked and regales her husband with a rather ghastly story from her childhood and of her suspicions that this man is the very one who perpetrated an heinous crime upon her. What now ensues could have been a rather more menacing cat and mouse affair, but sadly neither the acting nor the writing do much to generate any real sense of peril as the hour this takes to conclude drags along. The photographer has had a go at creating something a little tense and the last ten minutes benefit a little from that, but ultimately this is all rather procedural Saturday afternoon fayre that throws in the odd red herring but is really all a shade too predictable.

English