Once a Sinner (1950 film)
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| Once a Sinner | |
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| Directed by | Lewis Gilbert |
| Written by | David Evans |
| Produced by | John Argyle |
| Starring | Pat Kirkwood Jack Watling |
| Cinematography | Len Harris Frank North |
| Edited by | Lister Laurance |
| Music by | Ronald Binge |
| Distributed by | Butcher's Film Service (UK) Hoffberg Productions (USA) |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Once a Sinner is a 1950 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling and Joy Shelton.[1] It was written by David Evans.
Bank clerk John Ross falls for good-time girl Irene and ends his relationship with his fiancée Vera. Irene leaves her lover Jimmy Smart, a crook who has been passing forged bank notes, and although at first she tries to discourage John, they are quickly married. They soon find that Irene does not get along with John's middle-class parents and friends, and he is questioned by Inspector Rance and his manager at the bank over a counterfeit bank note he failed to spot; he realises that Irene is passing over Smart's counterfeit bank notes to her father and others.
When John finally insists on meeting Irene's mother he is taken aback by her hostility towards her own daughter, but he learns that Irene has a child by her former lover, Jimmy.
John tells her it's over between them and Irene reluctantly goes back to Jimmy and they move to London. A few weeks later, when John's father gives him his letters from Irene which his mother had tried to hide from him, John realises he still wants Irene and he sets off to find her.
The actual counterfeiter, a man called Charlie, lives in the room opposite Jimmy and Irene and she finds out that he actually makes the notes. Charlie arranges to have Jimmy killed and, although he manages to kill one of his attackers, Jimmy is shot and fatally wounded.
John arrives and persuades Irene to go with him and they decide they will try to make a life together in a new place, away from his disapproving family and friends. However, on the train back to town Irene sees Inspector Rance on the train and decides that John would be better off without her, and throws herself from the moving train.
Before John realises what has happened, Inspector Rance comes into his carriage and tells him that Irene is in the clear over the bank notes.
Cast
- Pat Kirkwood as Irene James
- Jack Watling as John Ross
- Joy Shelton as Vera Lamb
- Sydney Tafler as Jimmy Smart
- Thora Hird as Mrs James
- Humphrey Lestocq as Lewis Canfield
- Gordon McLeod as Mr Ross
- Edith Sharpe as Mrs Ross
- Harry Fowler as Bill James
- Danny Green as Ticker James
- Stuart Lindsell as Inspector Rance
- Olive Sloane as Lil
- George Street as Bridges
- Rose Howlett as Mrs Lamb
- Charles Paton as Mr Lamb
- Stuart Latham as Charlie
- Cameron Hall as Mr Barker
- Nora Gordon as Mrs Barker
- Norman Williams as Fred, barman