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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 18-06-2008, 02:22 PM
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I am trying to find the name of an old British film. I think it starred John Mills (???) and it's about a priest who was wrongly accused of murder (or framed) and goes on the run to clear his name. While running across the moors (?) he comes across a gypsy woman who helps him after proving to her he was a real priest by reciting to her the marriage/death (?) service. B&W film. Thanks.

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Skipper - I have a distinct mental image of Mills dressed as a young Catholic priest, but I can't get any further. A short search on the net has got me nowhere.
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Thanks very much, Andy. It must be one of those films that have not been repeated as often.
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You are not getting Millsy as a priest in Singer Not the Song mxed up with Mr Denning Drives North in which he meets a gyspy woman in the countryside while involved in a murder are you?
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I am trying to find the name of an old British film. I think it starred John Mills (???) and it's about a priest who was wrongly accused of murder (or framed) and goes on the run to clear his name. While running across the moors (?) he comes across a gypsy woman who helps him after proving to her he was a real priest by reciting to her the marriage/death (?) service. B&W film. Thanks.
It sounds like a combination of The Singer, Not the Song - where John Mills plays a priest, Sky West and Crooked - which has a gypsy woman in it and The October Man - where he's on the run accused of murder

Or maybe it didn't have John Mills in it?

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IMHO a much better Mills/Bogarde film is "The Gentle Gunman"- despite the dodgy accents !
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Originally supposed to be directed by Ken Annakin with Marlon Brando and Peter Finch...
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Just a thought. Are you sure it's not "The Ghost Camera"? John Mills plays a wanted man, running across the moors and hiding in a derelict building....... I'm not altogether sure about a gypsy woman, but some of the plot sounds similar.

The Ghost Camera (1933)
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John Mills is questionable as seen from my original question. It might not be him. The remainder of the plot is correct though. I have looked at all the titles suggested but none of them is the film. I'll keep an eye out anyway. Thanks to all who reposnded.
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