The October Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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A chemist (John Mills) suffering PTSD from a traumatic brain injury comes under suspicion of the murder of an acquaintance (Kay Walsh) and the pressure of proving his innocence threatens to cause a relapse of his mental illness. adapted by Eric Ambler from his novel John Mills as Jim Ackland Joan Greenwood as Jenny Carden Edward Chapman as Mr. Peachy Kay Walsh as Molly Newman Joyce Carey as Mrs. Vinton Catherine Lacey as Miss Selby Adrianne Allen as Joyce Carden Felix Aylmer as Dr. Martin If you have a request or a comment for me, please go to the Colorized Movies Forum at https://archive.org/details/colorized-movies?tab=forum I colorized this using AI software that doesn't always get the colors right, but I think it looks fairly natural. Hopefully a more professional job will be done someday.
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- Director
- Roy Ward Baker
- Starring
- John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Catherine Lacey, Adrianne Allen, Felix Aylmer
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