Return of a Stranger

Return of a Stranger

69 mins | Oct. 3, 1937

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.

Return of a Stranger

69 mins | Oct. 3, 1937

Return of a Stranger
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
Producers
Original title Return of a Stranger
Directors Victor Hanbury
Writers

Cast

Griffith Jones

as James Martin

Rosalyn Boulter

as Carol Wall

Ellis Jeffreys

as Lady Wall

Athole Stewart

as Sir Patrick Wall

Cecil Ramage

as John Forbes

Sylvia Marriott

as Mary

James Harcourt

as Johnson

Harold Scott

as Peters

Howard Douglas

as Mr. Van Der Geun

David Farrar

as Dr. Young

Peter Gawthorne

as Sir Herbert Tompkin

Edie Martin

as Mrs. Stevens