The Orchard End Murder (1981)

  • 18
  • 11/01/1981 (GB)
  • Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Horror, Drama
  • 48m

Overview

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.

Christian Marnham

Director, Writer

Cast

Tracy Hyde's headshot

Tracy Hyde

Pauline Cox
Clive Mantle's headshot

Clive Mantle

Ewen
Bill Wallis's headshot

Bill Wallis

Railway Gatekeeper
Mark Hardy's headshot

Mark Hardy

Mike Robins
Raymond Adamson's headshot

Raymond Adamson

Mr Wickstead
Jessie Evans's headshot

Jessie Evans

Mrs Trowel
David Wilkinson's headshot

David Wilkinson

Batsman
Jeremy Watt's headshot

Jeremy Watt

Bowler

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