While I don't consider John Mills one of my favorites, he delivers a solid performance in this above-average crime story. Following a car crash, his character continues to experience lingering effects when, during a hotel stay, he finds himself drawn into the inquiry surrounding the death of another guest—a woman who was murdered after venturing out on a misty London evening to mail correspondence. Lacking an alibi a…

Astrology Amnesia. Roy Ward Baker directed The October Man, with a script by Eric Ambler. It features John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Catherine Lacey, Adrianne Allen and Felix Aylmer. William Alwyn composed the music, and Erwin Hillier was in charge of cinematography. After a bus accident claimed the life of a young person he’d taken out for the day, Jim Ackland (Mills) sust…