Brilliant adaptation of the John Grisham novel. When two rednecks rape a 10-year-old old black girl, but look set to walk free, her distraught father shoots them dead. But this is the Deep South, and retribution will not be tolerated from a "negro". Powerful, thought-provoking courtroom thriller.
find out more...It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...