The Solitary Child

(1958)

Film | United Kingdom | B&W | 1h 4min

| Stars: Philip Friend, Barbara Shelley, Sarah Lawson | Director: Gerald Thomas

A young model’s marriage to a gentleman farmer, acquitted of murdering his first wife, nearly leads to her own untimely end

The marriage of Harriet, a celebrated London model, to Captain James Random causes a sensation: only two years previously, the gentleman farmer was acquitted in rather dubious circumstances of the murder of his first wife and there is still a widespread suspicion among the public that Random is a man who ‘got away with it’…