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Alec Graham (Alec McCowen) is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Cole (Christina Lubicz), with whom he was spending the night at the flat of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford (Paul Daneman). Alecs father, David Graham (Sir Michael Redgrave), a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in the day before the planned execution from Canada to visit his son on death row. Alec is resigned to his fate and not amenable to his fathers attempts for a final reconciliation. David Graham, convinced of his sons innocence and, despite his preoccupation with himself and his own alcoholism, mounts a last-ditch effort to find the true murderer in the twenty-four hours remaining until the planned execution. Graham encounters the wealthy and famous car manufacturer Robert Stanford (Leo McKern), tyrant at home and in the office, and an apparent womanizer, Stanfords young, curiously troubled wife Honor (Ann Todd), their ill-at- ease adopted son Brian, himself disturbed by his parents relationship, and Vickie Harker (Lois Maxwell), a young, brazen secretary at Stanfords factory who received a promotion following Alecs conviction.
In London, Alec Graham (Alec McCowen), convicted for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Cole (Christina Lubicz), is on death row with only twenty-four hours to live, all his lawyer Jeremy Claytons (Peter Cushings) efforts for stays of execution exhausted. David Graham (Sir Michael Redgrave), Alecs novelist father, comes to Alec for the first time since the sentence, only just having heard about it as he was locked up in a sanatorium in Montréal, Québec for alcohol abuse. Alec reluctantly speaks to his father who has been largely absent from his life. The facts as Alec and Clayton know: Alec and Jennie met the evening of the murder at the Stanfords flat - Alecs best friend Brian Stanford (Paul Daneman) and his adoptive parents, businessman Robert Stanford (Leo McKern) and Honor Stanford (Lois Maxwell) - where Jennies dead body was discovered. Alec and Jennie had quarrelled over Jennie wanting to break up with him. Although Alec stated that he left her alone at the flat at the end of the evening as she was so drunk not to make any sense, the toxicology report indicated she had no alcohol in her system. Alec does not remember what happened after he left, as he was drunk when he was picked up by the police in the morning. David is convinced Alec is innocent and sets out trying to prove that before he is executed. In speaking to the Stanfords and Agnes Cole (Dame Joan Plowright), Jennies sister, David believes he stumbles onto some pertinent information. As time ticks down, David, in his desperate state, turns to the bottle, which makes his ravings come across as those of a drunken lunatic. But his desperation also leads to him doing whatever he needs for the truth to come to light, if only to atone for being such a neglectful father to Alec.
Michael Redgrave
David Graham
Ann Todd
Honor Stanford
Leo McKern
Robert Stanford
Paul Daneman
Brian Stanford
Peter Cushing
Jeremy Clayton
Alec McCowen
Alec Graham
Renee Houston
Mrs. Harker
Lois Maxwell
Vickie Harker
Richard Wordsworth
Maxwell, the M.P.
George Devine
Barnes, the Editor
Joan Plowright
Agnes Cole
Ernest Clark
Under-Secretary, Home Office
Peter Copley
Prison Chaplain
Hugh Moxey
Prison Governor
Dickie Henderson
Comedian
John Chandos
First Journalist
Vernon Greeves
Second Journalist
Arnold Diamond
Third Journalist
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