Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
Directed by Christian Marnham
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Tracy Hyde
Pauline Cox
Clive Mantle
Ewen

Bill Wallis
Railway Gatekeeper
Mark Hardy
Mike Robins

Raymond Adamson
Mr Wickstead
Jessie Evans
Mrs Trowel

David Wilkinson
Batsman
Jeremy Watt
Bowler
Geoffrey Frederick
Cricket Captain
Alan Neame
Rector
Cyril Cross
Village Policeman

Rik Mayall
Policeman
Peter Hutchins
Detective
Alexander John
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