Beyond This Place (1959 film)

Beyond This Place
File:Web of Evidence poster.jpg US release poster with overseas market name, Web of Evidence.
Directed by	Jack Cardiff
Produced by	Maxwell Setton John R. Sloan
Written by	A. J. Cronin (novel) Ken Taylor
Starring	Van Johnson Vera Miles Emlyn Williams Bernard Lee
Music by	Douglas Gamley
Cinematography	Wilkie Cooper
Edited by	Ernest Walter
Distributed by	Renown Pictures Corporation Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release dates	18 October 1959
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Beyond This Place (US: Web of Evidence) is a 1959 British film based on the novel, of the same name, by A. J. Cronin. It was directed by Jack Cardiff and stars Van Johnson and Vera Miles.

The film tells the story of Paul Mathry, a man who left England for the United States as a child evacuee, and who returns to Liverpool twenty years later. Believing his father, Rees Mathry, had died a war hero, he is shocked to discover he is alive and serving a life sentence in prison for murder. Paul embarks upon his own investigation and finds the true culprit, clearing his father's name.

Cast

• Van Johnson as Paul Mathry
• Vera Miles as Lena Anderson
• Emlyn Williams as Enoch Oswald
• Bernard Lee as Patrick Mathry
• Jean Kent as Louise Burt
• Moultrie Kelsall as Chief Inspector Dale
• Leo McKern as McEvoy
• Ralph Truman as Sir Matthew Sprott
• Geoffrey Keen as Prison Governor
• Jameson Clark as Swann
• Rosalie Crutchley as Ella Mathry
• Oliver Johnston as Prusty
• Joyce Heron as Lady Catherine Sprott
• Anthony Newlands as Dunn
• Vincent Winter as Paul Mathry (as a child)
• Henry Oscar as Alderman Sharpe
• John Glyn-Jones as Magistrate
• Hope Jackman as Mrs. Hanley
• Michael Collins as Detective Sergeant Trevor
• Danny Green as Roach

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External links

• Web of Evidence at Turner Classic Movies
• Web of Evidence at IMDb