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Two Living, One Dead |
Two Living, One Dead - 1961 | 92 mins | Thriller, Crime, Drama | B&WThe Production TeamDirector: Anthony
Asquith. Producer: Teddy Baird. Associate Producer: Lorens Marmstedt. Script: Lindsay Galloway. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Editor: Oscar Rosander. Art Director: Bibi Lindstrom. Sound: Stig Flodin and Staffin Dalin. Music: Erik Nordgren. |
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The CastVirginia McKenna - Helen Berger Patrick McGoohan - Erik Berger Bill Travers - Anderson Dorothy Alison - Esther Kester Alf Kjellin - Rogers Noel Willman - Inspector Johnson Pauline Jameson - Miss Larsen Peter Bathurst - Engelhardt Derek Francis - Broms Michael Crawford - Nils Lindwall Peter Vaughan - John Kester |
Plot SynopsisAnthony Asquith went to Sweden to film Two Living, One
Dead, starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Patrick McGoohan.
Based on a Nobel prize winning novel by Sigurd Christiansen, it tells
of a small Swedish post-office being raided by two armed men. One of
the post-office's three clerks is shot and dies. Another, Eric (Patrick
McGoohan), who is married, has a child and is afraid of losing his life,
hands over the cash-box to the raiders. The third clerk, Anderson (Bill
Travers) is regarded as a hero because he has a bandage round his head;
whereas the man who handed over the money is treated by the people of
the small town as a coward: his wife Helen (Virginia McKenna) and his
young son get the backwash of the public's hostility.
It turns out that the hero is really a coward too. Sickened by the
so-called 'hero's' pride and boastfulness, the clerk who has been
treated as an outcast, draws a gun on him and discovers that he is
not prepared to risk his life either. |
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