Cop-Out
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Pierre Rouve
James Mason
Geraldine Chaplin
Bobby Darin
Paul Bertoya
Ian Ogilvy
Film Details
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Synopsis
John Sawyer, once a prominent barrister, is now an alcoholic recluse living in Winchester, England, with Angela, his 20-year-old daughter. Angela treats him with open contempt, preferring to spend her time looking for amusement at local discotheques and coffee bars. One day Angela's group of friends is infiltrated by Barney Teale, a sinister American ship steward. A short time later, Barney's dead body is found by Sawyer in his home. When Angela's boyfriend, Jo Christophorides, is accused of the murder, Sawyer decides to come out of retirement and defend the young man, although he is haunted by his last murder case which resulted in his client's execution. Jo's chances appear slim until Sawyer learns that another of Angela's friends, Desmond Flower, is impotent--a secret that Barney had also discovered. Barney had sadistically forced Desmond into a sexual encounter with a young woman in order to expose his weakness, and Desmond killed him, planting false evidence implicating Jo. Once Desmond's alibi is broken and Jo's innocence established, Sawyer and his estranged daughter are reconciled.
Director
Pierre Rouve
Cast
James Mason
Geraldine Chaplin
Bobby Darin
Paul Bertoya
Ian Ogilvy
Bryan Stanyon
Pippa Steel
Clive Morton
James Hayter
Megs Jenkins
Lisa Daniely
Moira Lister
Yootha Joyce
John Henderson
Rita Webb
Danvers Walker
Julian Orchard
Ivor Dean
Marjie Lawrence
Lindy Aaron
Lucy Griffiths
Charlotte Selwyn
Melinda May
Tom Kempinski
Sheila White
Toni Palmer
Michael Standing
Anne Hart
Crew
Vic Briggs
Pam Carlton
Anatole De Grunwald
Dimitri De Grunwald
Felix Evans
Ken Higgins
Jimmy Komisarjevsky
Richard Mills
Roy Parkinson
Ray Parslow
Barbara Ritchie
Pierre Rouve
Patrick John Scott
Patrick John Scott
Selig J. Seligman
J. B. Smith
Allan Sones
Cyril Swern
Donald Toms
Ernest Walter
Tony Woollard
Film Details
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Location scenes filmed in Southampton, England. Released in Great Britain in July 1967 as Stranger in the House; running time: 104 min. Previously filmed in France in 1942 as Les inconnus dans la maison and released in the United States in 1949 by Lopert Pictures as Stranger in the House.
