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Return of a Stranger: Directed by Max Varnel. With John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton. John and Pam have bought a terrace house in a village, and move into it with their little son.
The quiet suburban world of Pam and John Allen is shattered when a strange man begins stalking them with late night phone calls and sudden disturbing appearances. It emerges that the man, Homer Trent, was a part of Pam's teenage past at an orphanage.
Return of a Stranger is a 1937 British drama film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Griffith Jones, Rosalyn Boulter, Ellis Jeffries and Athole Stewart. The film was made at Shepperton Studios as a Quota quickie, and was distributed by RKO Pictures to meet the company's annual requirement under the Quota.
Step by step the foreigner escalates his terror against the couple, ending in an attempt to murder John. By sheer luck John is saved, while a colleague happens to be killed instead of him. As a final stroke the stranger tries to capture Pam in her home at night and kidnap her.
The tale of a house wife whom the husband - Ireland - is a big executive in a major company, and who is harassed by a mysterious man. A man she met some decades ago, and who searches something about her. Nothing else, but it is enough to keep you stuck to this very good suspenser.
Return of a Stranger, one of a handful of cheap-o British features in which John Ireland starred in the late 1950s and early 1960s, is a surprisingly intense, sensitive story about stalking and rape.
Reviews 1. Discussions 1. A review by CinemaSerf. Written by CinemaSerf on February 26, 2023. An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.
John and Pam have bought a terrace house in a village, and move into it with their little son. In the middle of the night Pam notices that a man is peeping at them from the pavement outside. When he reemerges on the same spot in daytime, she starts becoming nervous.
