Witness in the Dark

A man breaks into a flat. What he is after is a valuable brooch. An elderly woman is at home. He kills her. Then he tries to get out fast. On the stairs he runs into a young woman. She does not see him but she hears his voice. He knows that. From that moment she becomes his target. The police open an investigation. Time, though, is working against her. The killer is preparing to come back and silence her. The film builds that threat as a short, tight thriller. The running time is short and the telling is direct. Patricia Dainton and Conrad Phillips appear in the sixty two minute film, a British production Wolf Rilla finished in 1959.