Killing Time (1970)

Director
Anthea Browne-Wilkinson

Main cast
George Cole; Annette Crosbie; Margery Withers; Paul Dawkins

Genres
Thriller

Description
Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroom in a typically working-class two up-two down. Only he has a bit of a past. For Douglas, every day is just a question of getting through it as painlessly as possible – and that usually means retreating to his bedroom. Is it in order to escape the mundanities of the present? Or to ruminate on his past?


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