Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Agnes, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son's name while battling "the bottle."
Elenco: Michael Redgrave , Ann Todd , Leo McKern , Paul Daneman , Peter Cushing , Alec McCowen , Renée Houston , Lois Maxwell , Richard Wordsworth , George Devine , Joan Plowright , Ernest Clark , Peter Copley , Hugh Moxey , Dickie Henderson , John Chandos , Vernon Greeves , Arnold Diamond , Julian Somers , Aubrey Richards , Gwynne Whitby , Christina Lubicz , Dervis Ward , David Lander .