The Case of Charles Peace (1949)

Directors

Norman Lee

Cast

Michael Martin Harvey, Chili Bouchier, Valentine Dyall, Bruce Belfrage

The story

The story of the nineteenth century burglar and murderer Charles Peace is told in flashback in a lecture by Sir Clement Barnes KC at Hendon Police College: Peace's murder of Arthur Dyson, his subsequent false identities, his career as a burglar, and his shooting of a policeman. For these crimes he is eventually arrested, tried, and sentenced to death by hanging.

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