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The Orchard End Murder

5.8 / 10 5.8 1981 48m18
ComedyCrimeThrillerHorrorDrama

Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.

Directed by Christian Marnham

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Tracy Hyde
Tracy HydePauline Cox
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Clive MantleEwen
Bill Wallis
Bill WallisRailway Gatekeeper
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Mark HardyMike Robins
Raymond Adamson
Raymond AdamsonMr Wickstead
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Jessie EvansMrs Trowel
David Wilkinson
David WilkinsonBatsman
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Jeremy WattBowler
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