Blind Corner

Blind Corner

1964 · 80 min · ★ 4.9 · Crime, Drama

Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...

Directed by Lance Comfort · Written by James Kelley

Your Rating

Cast

William Sylvester Paul Gregory
Barbara Shelley Anne Gregory
Alexander Davion Rickie Seldon
Elizabeth Shepherd Joan Marshall
Mark Eden Mike Williams
Ronnie Carroll Himself
Barry Alldis Compere
Edward Evans Chauffeur
Frank Forsyth Policeman

Make it a double feature

2h 18m together

Blind Corner

Touch of Death

Both from Lance Comfort.

More from Lance ComfortSee all →

Squadron Leader X

Squadron Leader X · 1943

Squadron Leader X

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin · 1933

MovieDramaAdventure

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.

Love's Old Sweet Song

Love's Old Sweet Song · 1933

Love's Old Sweet Song

'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)

Wire Service

Wire Service · 1956

Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.

Escape to Danger

Escape to Danger · 1943

Escape to Danger

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.

Touch of Death

Touch of Death · 1961

A criminal gang pull off a big robbery, unaware the cash has been infected with toxic poison. The thieves hide out on a Thames houseboat and terrorise its female occupant, before they start dying.

Make Mine a Million

Make Mine a Million · 1959

Make Mine a Million

Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.

The Girl on the Pier

The Girl on the Pier · 1953

The Girl on the Pier

Sometimes listed as a horror film, the British Girl on the Pier is a Spartan little melodrama starring the alluring Veronica Hurst as the title character. The wife of wax museum curator Campbell Singer, Hurst carries on with Singer's partner Ron Randell. Killing Randell, the cuckolded husband tries to hide the body among his waxworks. The police eventually catch on when Singer proves too clever for his own good. Girl on the Pier doesn't pretend to be a classic; on its own terms, it's an agreeable 65 minutes out of your life.

Great Day

Great Day · 1945

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

The Switch

The Switch · 1963

A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.

The Break

The Break · 1963

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.

Eight O'Clock Walk

Eight O'Clock Walk · 1954

Eight O'Clock Walk

MovieCrimeDrama

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

Hotel Reserve

Hotel Reserve · 1944

MovieThrillerDrama

A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

The Awakening

The Awakening · 1954

"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

Penn of Pennsylvania

Penn of Pennsylvania · 1942

Penn of Pennsylvania

MovieHistoryDrama

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe · 1958

SeriesAction & Adventure

Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.

More Like This

Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds · 2008

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

See for Me

See for Me · 2022

MovieCrimeHorror

When blind former Olympic skier Sophie Scott cat-sits in a secluded mansion, she gets caught in the crossfire of a home invasion scheme. She must rely on a sighted Army veteran via the See for Me app to help her survive the night.

Scarlet Innocence

Scarlet Innocence · 2014

Scarlet Innocence

MovieThrillerDrama

A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.

Proof

MovieDramaRomance

Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.

Black

Unable to see, hear, or speak after a childhood illness, a young woman grows up prone to violent outbursts until an eccentric tutor changes her life.

Return to Sender

Return to Sender · 2004

Return to Sender

While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client

At First Sight

At First Sight · 1999

MovieDramaRomance

A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart · 1984

Places in the Heart

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue · 1965

A Patch of Blue

MovieDramaRomance

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Zatoichi

Zatoichi · 2003

MovieAdventureDrama

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter