The Boy Cried Murder
Cast & Crew
George P. Breakston
Fraser "fiz" Macintosh
Veronica Hurst
Phil Brown
Tim Barrett
Beba Loncar
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Synopsis
Jonno, jealous of his stepfather, Tom, invents stories and makes mischief to attract attention. As the family travels by steamer along the Adriatic Coast, Jonno sees a man fall into the water and claims he was pushed. The man is rescued and explains that he simply had too much to drink, and Jonno receives a scolding. The family arrives at the small resort town of Budva, and the boy again attracts attention by freeing a tame bear. During their holiday Clare and Tom become friendly with Susie and her boyfriend, Mike, a ne'er-do-well who relies on his great charm and sex appeal to get along. Mike receives a visit from Marianne, a former girl friend who intends to tell the police about a sum of money he took from her. Trailing Mike as he chases after Marianne to stop her, Jonno stumbles over her corpse. No one believes Jonno's story, however, because the body cannot be found and because of his earlier lie. When Jonno's parents go to a dance one night, Mike breaks into the boy's room, but Jonno escapes, pursued through the town by the murderer. Clare and Tom discover Jonno's disappearance, and the police begin a search for him after Susie confirms Mike's guilt in the murder. Mike catches Jonno in a citadel overlooking the sea and uses the boy as a shield. At last, however, he thrusts Jonno into Tom's arms and falls to his death on the rocks below.
Director
George P. Breakston
Cast
Fraser "fiz" Macintosh
Veronica Hurst
Phil Brown
Tim Barrett
Beba Loncar
Edward Steel
Anita Sharp Bolster
Sonja Hleb¿
Alex Macintosh
Vuka Dundzerovic
Crew
Du¿an Aleksic
Caslav Damjanovic
Robin Estridge
Philip N. Krasne
Bernard Luber
Milorad Markovic
Ante Milic
Milanka Nanovic
Martin Slavin
Branka Soldo
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Filmed on the coast of Montenegro. Released in Great Britain in November 1966; running time: 81 min; in West Germany in September 1966 as Ein Junge schrie Mord; running time: 84 min; in Yugoslavia in 1967 as Decak je vikao ubistvo. The Cornell Woolrich story was previously filmed as The Window (RKO, 1949).
