{"title":"The Orchard End Murder","originalTitle":"The Orchard End Murder","src":"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BNzVkYzM5MTktOTQ3YS00Njc5LWE0OWUtMmRlMmE5YzYxMzhkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTAxMDQ0ODk@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR11,0,190,281_.jpg","srcset":"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BNzVkYzM5MTktOTQ3YS00Njc5LWE0OWUtMmRlMmE5YzYxMzhkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTAxMDQ0ODk@._V1_QL75_UY281_CR11,0,190,281_.jpg 190w, https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BNzVkYzM5MTktOTQ3YS00Njc5LWE0OWUtMmRlMmE5YzYxMzhkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTAxMDQ0ODk@._V1_QL75_UY422_CR17,0,285,422_.jpg 285w, https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BNzVkYzM5MTktOTQ3YS00Njc5LWE0OWUtMmRlMmE5YzYxMzhkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTAxMDQ0ODk@._V1_QL75_UY562_CR23,0,380,562_.jpg 380w","rate":"5","numVotes":"167","year":1981,"runtime":48,"isAdult":null,"type":null,"actors":[{"id":"6680068","name":"Bill Wallis","const":"nm0909245"},{"id":"6680069","name":"Tracy Hyde","const":"nm0405028"},{"id":"6680070","name":"Clive Mantle","const":"nm0544139"},{"id":"6680071","name":"Raymond Adamson","const":"nm0011518"},{"id":"6680072","name":"Mark Hardy","const":"nm0362706"},{"id":"6680073","name":"Cyril Cross","const":"nm0189136"},{"id":"6680074","name":"Jessie Evans","const":"nm0262886"},{"id":"6680075","name":"Mollie Maureen","const":"nm0560985"},{"id":"6680076","name":"David Wilkinson","const":"nm0929357"},{"id":"6680077","name":"Geoffrey Frederick","const":"nm0292781"},{"id":"6680078","name":"Peter Hutchins","const":"nm0404288"},{"id":"6680079","name":"Alexander John","const":"nm0424127"},{"id":"6680080","name":"Alan Neame","const":"nm2223258"},{"id":"6680081","name":"Rik Mayall","const":"nm0562201"},{"id":"6680082","name":"Jeremy Watt","const":"nm0914982"}],"directors":[{"id":"50187","name":"Christian Marnham","const":"nm0549435"}],"writers":[{"id":"92832","name":"Christian Marnham","const":"nm0549435"}],"countries":[{"id":"2","name":"United Kingdom","short":"gb"}],"languages":[{"id":"1","name":"English","short":"en"}],"genres":[{"id":"2","title":"Drama"},{"id":"6","title":"Thriller"}],"metacritic":null,"releaseDate":"1981\/11\/1","plot":"Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway halt, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station keeper, then upset by the intrusion of the latter\u0027s assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. That evening, the hunchback discovers Ewen with Pauline\u0027s body in the shack where he lives, and helps him to bury the corpse in the orchard. Later, however, Ewen inadvertently betrays himself: the body is disinterred by the police and Ewen breaks down hysterically. Years later, the hunchback, who has disavowed Ewen, encourages the friendship of another village youth. Peter Jessop\u0027s carefully textured camera work initially lends this mini-feature an edge of the picturesquely sinister. But the resolution of the anecdote is rather forced and anti-climactic, and some of the details (like the police searching the orchard at the dead of night) ring distractingly false. 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