A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangmans assistant tries to seduce his bosss wife - after a fight, the hangman is presumed drowned. The woman commits suicide, but the hangman has in fact survived, and manages to save his assistant from the gallows.
1948
HD
75min
NR
United Kingdom
English
Compton Bennett
Ann Todd
Maxwell Reed
Eric Portman
Bill Owen
John Turnbull
Maurice Denham
Jane Hylton
Edward Rigby
Eliot Makeham
hangman
british noir
film noir
river thames
