Partly of interest for its quantity of exteriors shot around the south of England (interiors at Merton Park). It's an Independent Artists production. Didn't recognise a single name of the crew.
A woman (played by Natasha Parry) has witnessed a murder; because this is printed in the papers, the murderer (Maxwell Reed) is after her. Scotland Yard detective (Edward Underdown) is enlisted to look after her and catch the culprit. I can't say he does a very good job.
There are a couple of quasi-Hitchcocky bits, one the staging of a murder, but the better one, a series of shots with the woman on the beach, the murderer sat behind her, and groups of workmen and cricketers around, who gradually dissipate... but then she just runs away and the murderer doesn't pursue her - all tension ebbs away. Curiously fluffed ending as well.
William Hartnell has a small role. Underdown was in Beat the Devil and Thunderball, and much on TV, Parry in Midnight Lace, Reed we only know from The Clouded Yellow.
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