The BFI Flipside presents... THE ORCHARD END MURDER (DVD + Blu-ray) A film by Christian Marnham This latest release from BFI Flipside is the newly remastered rarity - one of a series of British mini-features that shocked UK cinema audiences during the 1970s and early 1980s Set in an idyllic Kent village one balmy summer during the 1960s, this obscure British oddity is a macabre tale of murder and mischief A young woman from the suburbs (Tracy Hyde), bored by a countryside tryst, wanders off to explore her surroundings. When she meets a gnome-like stationmaster and... his towering, half-witted railway-worker friend (played by Casualty's Clive Mantle), an initially strange encounter turns sinister among the trees of a nearby orchard. Written and directed by Christian Marnham and shot by Pete Walker's regular cameraman Peter Jessop, The Orchard End Murder is a violent, darkly humorous thriller, unseen since it originally shocked UK cinema audiences as the supporting feature to Gary Sherman's Dead and Buried. Special Features: Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition The Showman (Christian Marnham, 1970, 25 mins): Short documentary about fairground Wild West showman Wally Shufflebottom Christian Marnham on The Orchard End Murder (2017, 38 mins) From Melody to Orchard End Murder: An Interview with Tracy Hyde (2017, 12 mins) An Interview with David Wilkinson (2017, 13 mins) Illustrated booklet with new writing by Josephine Botting and Vic Pratt, along with full film credits [show more]
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Drama directed by Christian Marnham and starring Raymond Adamson. When a young woman accompanies her friend to a village cricket match in which he is competing she soon becomes bored and wanders off on her own. When she finds herself at the local railway station she is invited to share some tea by the old, hunchbacked station keeper but when the old man's feeble-minded assistant abruptly returns to the station she becomes uncomfortable and decides to leave. Before she can return to the cricket match and her friend however, she once again encounters the station master's troubled young assistant.
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