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Gille Jenkins (Hayley Mills), a twelve-year-old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement with her single parent mother, witnesses the murder of an immigrant Polish woman living in an nearby apartment by her former boyfriend, Bronislaus Korchinsky. The young merchant marine becomes distraught when he discovers that she has become the mistress of a married British sports announcer and shoots her with her own gun. Gillie lies about the circumstances in order to keep the gun which she discovers where Korchinsky hid it. She ultimately bonds with him and misleads the police in their investigation.
12-year-old tomboy, Gillie Evans witnesses the murder committed, but her relationship with the killer thwarts the police in their investigation. .. lives with her aunt in a tenement building in the Tiger Bay neighborhood near the docks in Cardiff, Wales. Precocious Gillie, who always wants to play "guns" with the neighborhood boys, is a habitual liar, she doing so as what she sees as the path of least resistance for whatever the situation at hand in a life she doesnt much like. Bronislav Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) has always been drawn to the sea, and thus has long known that his calling has been to be a career sailor. While he has been away at sea, he has routinely sent his paychecks to his girlfriend, Anya Haluba (Yvonne Mitchell), off of which she is supposed to live with the ultimate goal of them getting married. Gillie and Korchinskys paths cross when on his latest shore leave he finds that Anya has moved into the same tenement building as Gillie and her aunt. A shrew of a woman, Anya moved to get away from Korchinsky, whom she does not love, to take up with Barclay, a married boxing announcer, this their clandestine love nest. A criminal incident at the tenement bonds Korchinsky and Gillie on multiple levels, at times adversarial and other times for mutual support in what each is striving for in light of the event. Gillie may ultimately understand the consequences of her lies in the process, especially as Police Superintendent Graham investigates the incident, he whose only goal is to discover the truth against what Korchinsky and Gillie are trying to achieve.
Hayley Mills
Gillie
Horst Buchholz
Bronislaw Korchinsky
John Mills
Superintendent Graham
Yvonne Mitchell
Anya
Megs Jenkins
Mrs. Phillips
Anthony Dawson
Barclay
George Selway
Det. Sgt. Harvey
Shari
Christine
George Pastell
'POLOMA' Captain
Paul Stassino
'POLOMA' 1st. Officer
Marne Maitland
Dr. Das
Meredith Edwards
P.C. Williams
Marianne Stone
Mrs. Williams
Rachel Thomas
Mrs. Parry
Brian Hammond
Dal Parry
Kenneth Griffith
Choirmaster
Eynon Evans
Mr. Morgan
Christopher Rhodes
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