Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him.
Unfortunately the writing, whilst not awful at all, asks some big leaps of faith of the audience. The trial is presided over by Justice Harrington, whose wife is in the hospital undergoing a serious operation. A slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals. Taxicab driver Tom Banning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl as an April-fool prank. Manning is picked up by Scotland Yard for questioning and is later arrested and charged with murder, with circumstantial evidence including his handkerchief (found under the body of the girl), a fibre from his coat under the dead girl’s fingernail and the testimony of Mrs Zunz. Based on a true story, Eight o’Clock Walk is an anti-capital punishment film (the title refers to the hour at which executions were traditionally carried out) which points out the danger of circumstantial evidence resulting in the death of a mistakenly accused prisoner, it is only by good fortune that the film’s innocent protagonist gets away in this case – and the unstated message is clearly that not everyone might be so lucky. Comedy The girl is later found murdered on the bomb site, strangled as she sang ‘Oranges and Lemons’ while feeding the ducks. During a recess, Peter Tanner sees Clifford outside the courthouse, giving a sweet to a young girl. The trail is presided over by Justice Harrington, whose wife is in the hospital undergoing an operation. During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother. Actors playing members of the jury differ in separate shots. A wartime pilot who suffered a head-wound, even Manning himself started to doubt his mind, and wondered if he had suffered from a "blackout"?Manning's wife, Jill, convinced he is innocent, contacts lawyers, but the defending barrister refuses to see her and her imprisoned husband, because he wants to preserve an "objective view" on the case. A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic.
She later wins the sympathy of the junior counsel Peter Tanner, who visits Manning in prison, believes in his protestation of innocence and makes the case his own. This father and son have been able to fight fiercely and to carry out their legal responsibilities on opposite sides of the case, despite their friendship.
Well directed (Lance Comfort), well acted (Richard Attenborough/Cathy O'Donnell/Derek Farr/Maurice Denham/Ian Hunter) and neatly photographed (Brendan J. Stafford). David Preston, a bank official, goes missing for twenty-four hours and has no memory of the lost time. Unfortunately the writing, whilst not awful at all, asks some big leaps of faith of the audience. The trial is scheduled for London's Old Bailey.
Eight O' Clock Walk is one of the most oft-telecast of 1950s British films, and deservedly so" (Erickson). When the trial resumes Tanner recalls Clifford for cross-examination, confronting him with the similarity of the sweets, and instructing a street musician to play ‘Oranges and Lemons’ - the same song that was played when Clifford gave the sweet to the child in front of the restaurant, and the song that the child had sung to the ducks when she was murdered. A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Eight O'Clock Walk Approved | 1h 27min | Crime , Drama | 10 May 1954 (Sweden) In post-WW2 England, a taxi driver is ostracized by society after he's accused of murdering a school-girl and his untried lawyer must find the real killer to save his client from the hangman.