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The Man Within

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Original title

The Man Within

Year

1947

Running time

88 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Bernard Knowles

Screenwriter

Sydney Box, Muriel Box. Novel: Graham Greene

Cast

Music

Clifton Parker

Cinematography

Geoffrey Unsworth

Producer

Production Film Service

Genre

Adventure. Drama | Crime

Movie Groups

Graham Greene Adaptations

Synopsis

Told in flashback, the film opens on a brutal scene of a 17-year-old boy, Francis Andrews, being brutally lashed during a police interrogation in which the boy thinks back to the past that placed him in this situation. He betrayed the crew of a smuggling ship whose master, Richard Carlyon, was also his guardian. Some of the smugglers are caught, but Carlyon escapes and then begins his search for Andrews. Carlyon was quiet fond of the boy but knew him for a coward. Andrews seeks refuge in in the cottage of a girl named Elizabeth, who urges him to give testimony against the smugglers in court. He summons his courage and does so. Carlyon, catching up with Andrews, recognizes this as an act of courage, and does not take revenge on him. Carlyon is eventually caught, but despite the police torture, Andrews does not identify him, and he goes free while his guardian faces the gallows.

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The Man Within

1947

Bernard Knowles