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Director  Guy Green
Music director  John Veale
Duration  
Country  United Kingdom
6.3/10 IMDb

Genre  Crime, Drama
Screenplay  Guy Green, Ken Hughes
Language  English
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Writer  Ken Hughes, Francis Durbridge
Release date  January 18, 1956 (1956-01-18) (US)
Cast  Terry Moore (Alison Ford), Robert Beatty (Tim Forrester), William Sylvester (Dave Forrester), Josephine Griffin (Jill Stewart), Geoffrey Keen (Inspector Colby)

Tagline  A post card killer threatens artists, models, diamonds and MURDER!
Similar  The Girl in the Picture (1957 film), The Devils Daffodil, The Man Who Finally Died

Portrait of Alison is a 1956 British atmospheric crime film directed by Guy Green. It was based on a BBC television series Portrait of Alison which aired the same year. In the United States the film was released as Postmark for Danger.

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Plot

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The film opens with a car plunging over a cliff in Italy. The killed driver is newspaperman Lewis Forrester. The woman with him is supposedly Alison Ford, an actress. But she wasn’t actually in the car and turns up later in England to try and solve what was in truth a murder to shut the newspaper man up, not an accident. She solicits the help of Forrester's brother, Tim, an artist. Then, as the story unfolds, a number of mysterious, unsolved questions keep emerging, along with two more murders and a suicide. And before it's over it has been learned that an international ring of diamond thieves is at the bottom of everything, that no less than four of the major characters are part of it, and that an independent blackmailer is at work as well.

Cast

  • Terry Moore as Alison Ford
  • Robert Beatty as Tim Forrester
  • William Sylvester as Dave Forrester
  • Geoffrey Keen as Inspector Colby
  • Josephine Griffin as Jill Stewart
  • Allan Cuthbertson as Henry Carmichael
  • Henry Oscar as John Smith
  • William Lucas as Reg Dorking
  • Terence Alexander as Fenby
  • References

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