The October Man

The October Man

1947 · 95 min · EN · 6.0 (19 votes)
Dir. Roy Ward Baker · Starring John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Catherine Lacey

The Great Star of "Great Expectations" at His Greatest!

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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 man adrift in a fog of amnesia, haunted by the specter of his own potential guilt. This is a classic noir, dripping with atmosphere and existential dread, where every shadow could hide a killer or a forgotten truth.

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