The Man Upstairs

Peter Watson is living in a boarding house. He cannot sleep. There was an accident some time ago. His fiancee’s brother died in it. He carries the weight of that. One night there is noise from his room. The other tenants complain and the police are called. Watson locks his door, and there is a gun in the room with him. A negotiation begins outside while the man goes on arguing with himself inside. The film runs almost in real time and uses no score at all. It was shot at Shepperton Studios. Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston and Dorothy Alison appear in the eighty eight minute film, a British production Don Chaffey finished in 1958.