The Orchard End Murder
48 mins
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
Mark Hardy
Mike Robins
Jessie Evans
Mrs Trowel
Jeremy Watt
Bowler
Geoffrey Frederick
Cricket Captain
Alan Neame
Rector
Cyril Cross
Village Policeman
Peter Hutchins
Detective
Alexander John
News Reader
Mark Hardy
Robins
Astor Sklair
Casting
Simon Haynes
Production Design
Debbie Scragg
Costume Design
Debbie Scragg
Makeup Artist
Mark Latimer
Assistant Director
Michael Young
Assistant Director
Neil Kingsbury
Sound Recordist
Christian Marnham
Director
Christian Marnham
Writer
Julian Harvey
Producer
Sam Sklair
Music
Peter Jessop
Cinematography
Peter Goddard
Editor