The Intruder (1953 film)
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| Directed by | Guy Hamilton |
| Produced by | Ivan Foxwell |
| Written by | John Hunter Robin Maugham Anthony Squire |
| Starring |
Jack Hawkins George Cole Dennis Price Michael Medwin |
| Music by | Francis Chagrin |
| Cinematography | Edward Scaife |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £161,488 (UK) |
The Intruder is a 1953 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price and Michael Medwin. The film is based on the 1949 novel by Robin Maugham called The Line on Ginger.
Post-war London is the backdrop including Belgravia, Covent Garden market, Loughborough Junction and the Dulwich Hospital.
A contemporary critic commented that the film treated the subject "with intelligence, taste, and a feeling for the medium"; he also wrote "Medwin... gives a brilliant study of a good fellow gone wrong".
Ex-Colonel, now stockbroker, Wolf Merton (Jack Hawkins) returns home to find it being burgled by an armed intruder. Merton recognises the culprit, Ginger Edwards (Michael Medwin), as a former soldier who had fought under his command in a tank regiment during the Second World War. They discuss how Summers arrived at a life of crime but the burglar runs off.
The officer sets out to discover why one of his best men became involved in crime after he was de-mobbed. This is reflected in several flash-back episodes in which events during the war are contrasted with how each of the main characters cope with life in civvy street.
The soundtrack was composed by Francis Chagrin, conducted by Muir Mathieson.
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