Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Michael Redgrave
as David Graham
Ann Todd
as Honor Stanford
Leo McKern
as Robert Stanford
Paul Daneman
as Brian Stanford
Peter Cushing
as Jeremy Clayton
Alec McCowen
as Alec Graham
Renée Houston
as Mrs. Harker
Lois Maxwell
as Vickie Harker
Richard Wordsworth
as Maxwell - the MP
George Devine
as Barnes - the Editor
Joan Plowright
as Agnes Cole
Ernest Clark
as Under Secretary
