Portrait of Alison

This article is about the film. For the TV series, see Portrait of Alison (TV series).

Portrait of Alison
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Guy Green
Written by	Guy Green Ken Hughes Francis Durbridge (story)
Produced by	Frank Godwin Tony Owen
Starring	Terry Moore Robert Beatty William Sylvester
Cinematography	Wilkie Cooper
Edited by	Peter Taylor
Music by	John Veale
Production company	Insignia Films
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated
Release date	1955 (1955) (United Kingdom)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Portrait of Alison is a 1955 British atmospheric crime film directed by Guy Green. It was based on a BBC television series Portrait of Alison which aired the same year. In the United States the film was released as Postmark for Danger.

Plot

The film opens with a car plunging over a cliff in Italy. The killed driver is newspaperman Lewis Forrester. The woman with him is supposedly Alison Ford, an actress. But she wasn’t actually in the car and turns up later in England to try and solve what was in truth a murder to shut the newspaper man up, not an accident. She solicits the help of Forrester's brother, Tim, an artist. Then, as the story unfolds, a number of mysterious, unsolved questions keep emerging, along with two more murders and a suicide. And before it's over it has been learned that an international ring of diamond thieves is at the bottom of everything, that no less than four of the major characters are part of it, and that an independent blackmailer is at work as well.

Cast

• Terry Moore as Alison Ford
• Robert Beatty as Tim Forrester
• William Sylvester as Dave Forrester
• Geoffrey Keen as Inspector Colby
• Josephine Griffin as Jill Stewart
• Allan Cuthbertson as Henry Carmichael
• Henry Oscar as John Smith
• William Lucas as Reg Dorking
• Terence Alexander as Fenby

External links

• Portrait of Alison at IMDb