Home to Danger – 1951 | 66 mins | Crime, Drama | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Tense murder-mystery b-movie produced by low-budget specialist Lance Comfort and directed by Hammer regular Terence Fisher. Here Fisher puts his talents to use on an above average whodunit involving a young woman placed in danger after inheriting her father’s mansion. The excellent cast includes the imposing Guy Rolfe, Alan Wheatley, and Stanley Baker in an early and unexpected role.

Following her father’s suicide, Barbara Cummings (Rona Anderson) returns to London from the Far East to inherit his entire Sussex estate. Her father’s business partner, Howard Wainwright (Francis Lister), is left control of their company, and a London charity for orphan’s run by Hughes (Alan Wheatley) is offered a wing of the country mansion to provide respite for the underprivileged.

She is told by the retainer of her father’s last words, slow-witted family servant Willie (Stanley Baker), that there is something of importance in the office safe, but Barbara dismisses it as his over-imagination. Childhood friend Robert Irving (Guy Rolfe) joins Barbara for a shooting party in which Wainwright and an unknown assailant plan for her to meet with an ‘accident’, but the mysterious attacker turns up dead. Barbara becomes suspicious whether her father’s death was suicide, and together with Robert they break into his office safe and discover a stash of drugs within. Barbara and Robert force an admission from Wainwright that he has been peddling drugs on behalf of an unknown dealer; all he knows of his identity is that he possesses a withered hand.