Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Saturday, 16 September 1950

PAVILION, SELSEY. THE story of writer who places success as more important than personal integrity, "FOR THEM THAT TRESPASS," is featured, with "TRINITY HOUSE," at the Pavilion, Selsey, next week. Adapted from the novel by Ernest Raymond, the film stars Stephen Murray and Patricia Plunkett, with Richard Todd. Rosalyn Boulter, Michael Laurence, and Joan Dowling heading the supporting cast. Christopher Drew (Stephen Murray) is a young novelist who seeks an outlet for his talent in a London suburb, hoping to gain experience to help him on his career. He becomes involved with a young Cockney girl and her two admirers. To keep his identity a secret Drew tells the girl and her friends that his name is Marlowe, and this proves useful when she is killed. The police suspect the wrong person and one of the girl’s boy-friends is sentenced to death. The story comes to a climax in a railway tunnel where the real killer, in an attempt to kill the wronged man, is fatally hurt by a passing train, and makes a last-minute confession. An ideal setting for the story has been found and the film develops against a background of sooty houses, dirty side streets and crowded, noisy, public houses.