What is poor Tom supposed to do when he finds himself at the centre of a child murder case after being the last person to see a young girl on his way to work? No one seems to believe him when he says that he was led onto an abandoned wasteland by the girl as a prank and soon after she was murdered. It's a nightmarish scenario where there is no alibi to cover you, and no way to prove that you are telling the truth. The only hope is that there is a way to prove that someone else is lying.
Richard Attenborough plays just the right amount of good, without being mushy or over the top, and it's a rather painful process to watch as his wife, desperate to prove his innocence hires a barrister who ends up prosecuting against his own attorney father in the trial.
I liked this a lot, especially as it's one of those films where every second of viewing is important in case you miss anything.
A pretty decent attempt at a crime film.
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