Overview

' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?

Cast

Anthony Quayle

The Old Man

Celia Imrie

Housemaid

Aimée Delamain

Old Spinster

Mike Gwilym

Oswald

Patrick Godfrey

Professor Jenssen

Michael Williams

Paul

David de Keyser

Axel Reich

Joyce Redman

Vera

Boris Isarov

Latvian Cook

Clifford Mollison

Man with Compass

Anne Blake

Elegant Lady

Llewellyn Rees

The Colonel