Urge to Kill (1960)

Directors

Vernon Sewell

Cast

Patrick Barr, Ruth Dunning

The story

While making her way home from the cinema one night in a particularly grey and drab town, a young woman is murdered in an unusually brutal and sadistic manner. Local suspicion immediately falls on Hughie, a strangely behaved and not very bright local youth who has a habit of wandering aimlessly around the town at all hours randomly collecting stray bits and pieces, with a particular fondness for broken glass – which unfortunately for Hughie happens to have been one of the weapons used in the fatal attack. Hughie lives in the lodging house run by his aunt, along with a selection of boarders including a kindly elderly gent with a penchant…

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