04 Dec 2009
Cracks
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
If Winter Comes
A.S.M. Hutchinson's beloved classic of English countryside life becomes a screen masterpiece !
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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Walter Pidgeon Mark Sabre
Deborah Kerr Nona Tybar
Angela Lansbury Mabel Sabre
Binnie Barnes Natalie Bagshaw
Janet Leigh Effie Bright
May Whitty Mrs. Perch
Rène Ray Sarah 'Low Jinks'
Virginia Keiley Rebecca 'High Jinks'
Reginald Owen Mr. Fortune
John Abbott Mr. Twyning
Rhys Williams Mr. William Bright
Hugh French Tony Tybar
Dennis Hoey Tiny Wilson
Nicholas Joy Mr. Pettigrew
Halliwell Hobbes The Coroner
Victor Wood Mr. Fargus
Hughie Green Freddie Perch
James Wethered Harold Twyning
Owen McGiveney Uncle Fouraker
Ian Wolfe Dr. Clement Avington (uncredited)
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