🎥 The Girl Was Young - 1937 - Nova Pilbeam - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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On a stormy night, at a retreat on the English coast, Christine Clay, a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy.

Not accepting her Reno divorce as valid, he accuses her of having an affair. Finally, she slaps him and he leaves the room. While they had been arguing, his eyes twitched violently; they continue to do so when, once outside, he turns angrily to look at the closed door behind him.

The next morning, Robert Tisdall happens to be walking along the seaside when Christine's dead body washes ashore. He recognises her and runs for help.

Two young women arrive just in time to see him racing away from the corpse. The police quickly decide that Tisdall is the only suspect. Christine was strangled with the belt from a raincoat; his raincoat is missing and he says it was recently stolen.

He admits knowing the victim for three years since he sold her a story but the authorities assume the two have been having an affair. When they learn that she has left him money in her will (unbeknownst to him), they feel they have hit upon a motive and Tisdall is arrested.

Scotland Yard detectives grill him all night. The next morning, he faints and is revived with the aid of Erica Burgoyne, daughter of the local police Chief Constable. Tisdall is assigned an incompetent solicitor and is taken into court for his formal arraignment.

Doubting if his innocence will ever be established, he takes advantage of overcrowding in the courthouse to escape, wearing the solicitor's eyeglasses as a disguise. He gets away by riding on the running board of Erica's Morris car, revealing himself to her after the car runs out of petrol.

He helps push the car to a filling station, pays for petrol, and convinces her to give him a ride. Though she is initially fearful and unsure about her passenger, Erica eventually becomes convinced of his innocence and decides to help him in any way that she can.

They are eventually spotted together, forcing both to stay on the run from the police. Tisdall tries to prove his innocence by tracking down the stolen coat: if it still has its belt, the one found next to Christine's body must not be his.

The duo succeed in tracing Tisdall's coat to Old Will (Edward Rigby), a homeless, but sociable, china-mender. But Will was not the thief; he was given the coat by a man with "twitchy eyes", and with its belt already missing ...

The mystery unfolds ...

Credits :

Directed by : Alfred Hitchcock
Written by : Gerald Savory and Alma Reville
Sreenplay by : Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood and Anthony Armstrong
Based on : A Shilling for Candles 1936 novel by Josephine Tey
Produced by : Edward Black
Cinematography : Bernard Knowles
Edited by : Charles Frend
Music by : Jack Beaver and Louis Levy
Production Company : Gaumont-British
Distributed by : General Film Distributors
Release Dates : November 1937

✅ Cast :

Nova Pilbeam as Erica Burgoyne
Derrick De Marney as Robert Tisdall
Percy Marmont as Colonel Burgoyne
Edward Rigby as Old Will
Mary Clare as Erica's aunt Margaret
John Longden as Inspector Kent
George Curzon as Guy
Basil Radford as Erica's uncle Basil
Pamela Carme as Christine Clay
George Merritt as Detective Sergeant Miller
J. H. Roberts as the Solicitor, Henry Briggs
Jerry Verno as Lorry Driver
H. F. Maltby as Police Sergeant
John Miller as Police Constable
Syd Crossley as Policeman
Torin Thatcher as the owner of Nobby's Lodging House
Anna Konstam as Bathing Girl (uncredited)
Bill Shine as Manager of Tom's Hat Cafe (uncredited)
Beatrice Varley as Accused Man's Wife (uncredited)
Peter Thompson as Erica Burgoyne's bespectacled brother

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_and_Innocent

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