Leofwine_draca Review of Eight O'Clock Walk

Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)

Very British version of the 'wronged man' story

[5/10 · 22 July 2020]

EIGHT O'CLOCK WALK is another British drama that offers an acting showcase for a quietly understated Richard Attenborough, playing another of his ordinary men. This time he becomes embroiled in a Hitchcockian 'wronged man' style drama when he's falsely accused of child murder and forced to clear his name in the courts - or face the death sentence. The story that follows is quite familiar - seemingly every British male actor was accused of some heinous crime or other during the 1950s - and slows down when it becomes a court procedural, but fans of the era or stars involved will enjoy it regardless.