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Christian Marnham is a director active in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1970 he filmed the short, The Showman. In 1980 he shot the short feature film The Orchard End Murder, which was screen debut of actor Clive Mantle. In 1985 he directed the episode "Hors de Combat" for the TV series Dempsey and Makepeace.
Christian Marnham is known for The Orchard End Murder (1981), The Most Dangerous Woman Alive (1988) and Blooded.
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The Orchard End Murder (also known as The Bunnyhole Murder)is a 1981 British short thriller film directed and written by Christian Marnham, and starring Tracy Hyde, Bill Wallis, Clive Mantle, and Raymond Adamson.
Mar 4, 2020 · Directed by Christian Marnham, this is one short that bettered the feature it supported. Memories of a screening in a north Manchester cinema in the mid-eighties remained with me for years. Prior to revisiting the film on Blu-ray recently, all I recalled of The Orchard End Murder was that it had something to do with apples, and ...
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Jul 18, 2017 · Despite the usual disclaimer at the end of The Orchard End Murder (“any similarity…is purely coincidental…”), the story has several parallels with an actual murder that had taken place 10 years before near the Kent home of its director, Christian Marnham.
Aug 19, 2017 · Christian Marnham on The Orchard End Murder (38 mins) – Director Marnham chats about his career and about the genesis of the project and about how they got it funded; all interesting stuff for anyone who has ever had the desire to make a film.
Director Christian Marnham serves up an unsettlingly atmospheric tale of murder on a sunny day in the country. Despite the initially light tone, in places the film is reminiscent of certain sexually sordid Euro-horror of the period, and it’s no surprise that Redemption have released this elsewhere.
