The Orchard End Murder (1981)

The Orchard End Murder

1981

Comedy Crime Thriller Horror Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Christian Marnham

Cast

Alan Neame as Rector

Bill Wallis as Railway Gatekeeper

Clive Mantle as Ewen

David Wilkinson as Batsman

Geoffrey Frederick as Cricket Captain

Jeremy Watt as Bowler

Jessie Evans as Mrs Trowel

Mark Hardy as Mike Robins