The Heart of the Matter (1953)

Directors

George More O'Ferrall

Cast

Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Denholm Elliott, Peter Finch, Gérard Oury

The story

Harry Scobie, Deputy Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown during the Second World War, is unhappily married to fellow-Catholic Louise: both mourn the death of their only daughter. Despite his having been a police officer in the country for 15 years, when the Police Commissioner announces he is to retire, Scobie is overlooked in favour of a younger man sent out from the UK. On a search of a neutral Portuguese ship, the Esperança, he finds an envelope addressed to Germany.

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