This week’s Friday Night Movie offering is ‘For Them That Trespass’ a bleak crime drama from 1949 starring Stephen Murray and Richard Todd, who later went onto star as Guy Gibson in ‘The Dambusters’.

As I said this is a bleak crime drama but one worth watching. Todd plays a man called Herbert Logan who is enamoured with a girl called Frankie, portrayed Rosalyn Boulter. However, Frankie is also being wooed by another man named Jim Heal.

Into this situation comes an aspiring author from a very middle class background called Christopher Drew, played by Murray, who whilst slumming it in a rough area of his town, meets up with Frankie, Herbert and Jim. One night, Drew sees Frankie being murdered but rather than go to the police he keeps quiet. Drew behaves in this cowardly manner because he perceives that if it became known that he was consorting with those on the wrong side of the tracks, then he could lose all his social status.

Because of Drew’s silence, the wrong man is apprehended for the murder and is sentenced to death, although this sentence is later commuted to 15 years penal servitude. When the innocent man is released from prison, he tries to find out exactly who killed Frankie and he is led by chance encounters and discoveries to find out who the real killer was and uncover how Drew’s silence helped to convict him when Drew could have spoken up and told the police what he saw.

I quite enjoyed this movie and I hope you all do as well