' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?

Anthony Quayle
The Old Man

Celia Imrie
Housemaid
Phillada Sewell
Major's Widow

Aimée Delamain
Old Spinster
Ruby Head
Doctor's Widow

Mike Gwilym
Oswald

Patrick Godfrey
Professor Jenssen

Michael Williams
Paul
Hubert Rees
Pastor Holm
Arnold Peters
Savings Bank Manager

David de Keyser
Axel Reich

Joyce Redman
Vera

Boris Isarov
Latvian Cook

Clifford Mollison
Man with Compass
Ken Parry
Fat Man