The Orchard End Murder (1981)
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.
- Date of release
- 1981-11-01
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 48m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Horror, Drama
- Director
- Christian Marnham
Casting
- Tracy Hyde — Pauline Cox
- Clive Mantle — Ewen
- Bill Wallis — Railway Gatekeeper
- Mark Hardy — Mike Robins
- Raymond Adamson — Mr Wickstead
- Jessie Evans — Mrs Trowel
- David Wilkinson — Batsman
- Jeremy Watt — Bowler
- Geoffrey Frederick — Cricket Captain
- Alan Neame — Rector
- Cyril Cross — Village Policeman
- Rik Mayall — Policeman
Interesting facts
The Orchard End Murder is a 1981 British short thriller film directed and written by Christian Marnham, and starring Tracy Hyde, Bill Wallis, Clive Mantle, and Raymond Adamson. It marked the film debut of Clive Mantle.
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