The Orchard End Murder ( 1981 )

Overview

Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.

Top Cast

Tracy Hyde

Pauline Cox

Clive Mantle

Ewen

Bill Wallis

Railway Gatekeeper

Mark Hardy

Mike Robins

Raymond Adamson

Mr Wickstead

Jessie Evans

Mrs Trowel

David Wilkinson

Batsman

Jeremy Watt

Bowler

Geoffrey Frederick

Cricket Captain

Alan Neame

Rector

Cyril Cross

Village Policeman

Rik Mayall

Policeman

Peter Hutchins

Detective

Alexander John

News Reader

Mollie Maureen

Old Woman at Station

Mark Hardy

Robins