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Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)

Eight O'Clock Walk poster
Directed by
Lance Comfort
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
15
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is accused of murder based on circumstantial evidence. The film follows the fight to save him from execution.

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What happens

Eight O'Clock Walk is a 1954 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr and Maurice Denham. Based on a true story, Eight O'Clock Walk is an anti-capital punishment film (the title refers to the hour at which executions were traditionally carried out, though in London (where the film is set) executions were carried out at 9 am) that points out the danger of circumstantial evidence resulting in the death of a mistakenly accused prisoner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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