Two Living, One Dead (1961)
1h 45m
Running Time
April 3, 1961Release Date
Two Living, One Dead (1961)
1h 45m
Running Time
April 3, 1961Release Date
Plot.
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
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Cast & Crew.
Virginia McKenna
Helen Berger
Bill Travers
Andersson
Patrick McGoohan
Erik Berger
Noel Willman
Johnson
Alf Kjellin
Rogers
Dorothy Alison
Esther Kester
Anthony Asquith
Director
Peter Vaughan
John Kester
Details.
Wiki.
Two Living, One Dead is a 1961 British-Swedish existentialist thriller film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Patrick McGoohan, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers.The film is a remake of the 1937 Norwegian film To levende og en død, which in turn was adapted from the novel of the same name by author Sigurd Christiansen. The Scandinavian small-town setting of the earlier film was kept but the action was moved to Sweden.