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The October Man

The Great Star of "Great Expectations" at His Greatest!

6.2(25)19471h 35m2

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

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Released
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Language
English
  • film noir
  • memory loss
  • british noir

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical28 Aug 1947
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical10 Sept 1948

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The October Man was released on 28 August 1947.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    4/6/2014

    8/10

    Astrology Amnesia. The October Man is directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Eric Ambler. It stars John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Catherine Lacey, Adrianne Allen and Felix Aylmer. Music is by William Alwyn and cinematography by Erwin Hillier. Following a bus crash that killed a friends child that he was treating to a day out, Jim Ackland (Mills) suffers a brain injury. …

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    CinemaSerf

    7/7/2022

    7/10

    I'm not the greatest fan of John Mills, but he is pretty good in this superior crime thriller. He is involved in a motor accident and many years later is still suffering from after effects when, whilst staying at an hotel, he becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of a fellow resident who is killed after she went out on a foggy London night to post a letter. He has no alibi, and his memories are inconsis…

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