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Francis Durbridge Presents: The Desperate People: Episode 3

on BBC Television

A new serial in six episodes.
Starring Denis Quilley, Hugh Cross
with Stanley Meadows

Larry Martin has been given a key found in his dead brother's hotel room. Two people are interested in gaining possession of this key: Mrs. Curtis, the hotel owner, and her step-brother, Thomas Quayle. On a visit to Quayle's antique shop in Arundel, Larry's talk with him is interrupted by a customer.

Contributors

Writer:
Francis Durbridge
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Film cameraman:
A.A. Englander
Film editor:
John Walker
Larry Martin:
Denis Quilley
Det-Insp Lang:
Peter Ducrow
Det-Insp Hyde:
Hugh Cross
Douglas Talbot:
Garard Green
Vanessa Curtis:
June Ellis
Ruth Sanders:
Renny Lister
Model girl:
Yvonne Antrobus
Nurse:
Leonie Forbes
Andy Wilson:
Barry Jackson
Clare Seldon:
Shirley Cain
Cliff Fletcher:
Nigel Hawthorne
Ticket seller:
Hugh Lund
Cloakroom attendant:
Edward Brooks
Luther Harris:
Stanley Meadows
Peggy Grahame:
Frances Collier
Man on photograph:
John Flint
Woman on photograph:
Hilary Crane

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