The Intruder (1953 film)

The Intruder is a 1953 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price and Michael Medwin. The film is based on the 1949 novel by Robin Maugham called The Line on Ginger.

ExColonel, now stockbroker, Wolf Merton Jack Hawkins returns home to find it being burgled by an armed intruder. Merton recognises the culprit, Ginger Edwards Michael Medwin, as a former soldier who had fought under his command in a tank regiment during the Second World War. They discuss how Summers arrived at a life of crime but the burglar runs off.The officer sets out to discover why one of his best men became involved in crime after he was demobbed. This is reflected in several flashback episodes in which events during the war are contrasted with how each of the main characters cope with life in civvy street. ........

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