Three Sundays to Live

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Three Sundays to Live is a low budget 1957 second feature ('B')^[1] film noir British film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Kieron Moore and Jane Griffiths.^[2][3][4] It was written by Brian Clemens and produced by The Danzigers.

The title refers to the law of the period, which required that after a death sentence had been passed, three Sundays must elapse before the execution.^[5]

Young dance band leader, Frank Martin, is condemned to death for a murder he didn't commit. Desperate to prove his innocence, Frank escapes from jail, and with his girlfriend Judy, embarks upon the search for a blonde singer who was used to frame him for the killing. Using a contact who owes Frank a favour, they trace the singer, but the real killer shoots her through a window after she agrees to help them. However, Martin manages to trick the murderer into believing he's killed the wrong woman. When the killer returns to try again, Frank is waiting.

• Kieron Moore as Frank Martin
• Jane Griffiths as Judy Allen
• Basil Dignam as Davitt
• Sandra Dorne as Ruth Chapman
• Harold Ayer as Al Murray
• John Stone as detective
• Norman Mitchell as police sergeant
• John Longden as warder
• Ferdy Mayne as Davis
• John Stuart as the judge (uncredited)
• Bill Fraser as prison warder (uncredited)
• George Roderick as second officer (uncredited)

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This sad and stereotyped crime story has no redeeming feature. The situations are implausible, the treatment sluggish, the acting unpersuasive. It is particularly unflattering to Scotland Yard, whose detectives, apparently, are quite incapable of recognising a blatant frame-up."^[6]

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