The Solitary Child

1958
1h 4m

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Philip Friend, Julia Lockwood, and Barbara Shelley in The Solitary Child (1958)

A young woman's marriage to a gentleman farmer, acquitted of murdering his first wife, nearly leads to her own untimely end.A young woman's marriage to a gentleman farmer, acquitted of murdering his first wife, nearly leads to her own untimely end.A young woman's marriage to a gentleman farmer, acquitted of murdering his first wife, nearly leads to her own untimely end.

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6greenbudgie

Barbara Shelley takes center-stage

Standing outside her wedding venue, Harriet sees her new husband being quizzed by the gathering press. He's being questioned on the death of his first wife. He has been acquitted of her murder but the press are not convinced that's the end of the matter. After settling into her new home, Harriet starts to get warnings she's not safe there. Her stepdaughter Maggie springs from nowhere and makes friends with her. Maggie is being told to keep quiet about something. Then accidents start to happen where Harriet feels she is endangered. I kept thinking Harriet should have done her homework on the situation she was about to be married into. British horror fans should like Barbara Shelley taking center-stage in this mystery. Margaret Lockwood's daughter Julia plays Maggie. It's slow at first but there's enough tension in the second half.

4malcolmgsw

Thiller without thrills

Little wonder that this was a rare dramatic outing for Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers after this film nearly everything was Carry On.This film is a rather dull thriller.Barbara Shenley marries Phillip Friend who has been acquitted of the murder of his first wife.However everyone thinks he did it.This film plods through to the denouement which comes as a relief even though the film lasts just over an hour.

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This was passed by the BBFC on November 13th 1957 but did not get shown until playing at the Rialto, Coventry St., London for five weeks from October 30th 1958 in support of British Lion's release of the German film Blitzkrieg. It did not get a general release until March 1961 when this Peter Rogers production did the rounds of the Rank circuit in support of No Love For Johnnie, produced by Rogers' wife, Betty E. Box.

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Ann: Why can't she come home where she belongs?
James Random: Ann, I don't want to go into all that again just now.
Ann: At the time it might have been a necessary cruelty. Now it's positively inhuman.