- Web of Evidence
Infobox Film
name = Web of Evidence
director =Jack Cardiff
producer =Maxwell Setton John R. Sloan
writer =A. J. Cronin (novel)
Ken Taylor
starring =Van Johnson Vera Miles Emlyn Williams Bernard Lee
music =Douglas Gamley
cinematography =Wilkie Cooper
editing =Ernest Walter
distributor =Renown Pictures Corporation Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
released =October 18 ,1959
runtime = 90 min.
country = UK
language = English
imdb_id = 0052623"Web of Evidence" is a 1959 British film based on the novel, "
Beyond This Place ", byA. J. Cronin . It was directed byJack Cardiff and starsVan Johnson andVera Miles . The original title was kept for the film's European release, though it was given an alternate title for the American release. The film tells the story of Paul Mathry, a man who leftEngland for theUS as a child evacuee, and who returns toLiverpool twenty years later. Believing his father, Rees Mathry, had died a war hero, he is shocked to discover he is alive and serving a life sentence in prison for murder. Paul embarks upon his own investigation and finds the true culprit, clearing his father's name.Cast
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Van Johnson as Paul Mathry
*Vera Miles as Lena Anderson
*Emlyn Williams as Enoch Oswald
*Bernard Lee as Patrick Mathry
*Jean Kent as Louise Burt
*Moultrie Kelsall as Chief Inspector Dale
*Leo McKern as McEvoy
*Ralph Truman as Sir Matthew Sprott
*Geoffrey Keen as Prison Governor
*Jameson Clark as Swann
*Rosalie Crutchley as Ella Mathry
*Oliver Johnston as Prusty
*Joyce Heron as Lady Catherine Sprott
*Anthony Newlands as Dunn
*Vincent Winter as Paul Mathry (as a child)
*Henry Oscar as Alderman Sharpe
*John Glyn-Jones as Magistrate
*Hope Jackman as Mrs. Hanley
*Michael Collins as Detective Sergeant Trevor
*Danny Green as RoachExternal links
* [http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?scarlettTitleId=95229 "Web of Evidence" at Turner Classic Movies]
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