If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: https://goo.gl/0qDmXe | Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It” is a British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert and Edward Chapman. It was the third and final film adaptation of the Inspector Hornleigh stories.
It was released in America by 20th-Century Fox under the title “Mail Train”.
Directed by Walter Forde, produced by Edward Black , written by Val Guest, Frank Launder, J.O.C. Orton and Hans Wolfgang Priwin (radio series), starring Gordon Harker as Inspector Hornleigh, Alastair Sim as Sergeant Bingham, Phyllis Calvert as Mrs. Wilkinson, Edward Chapman as Mr. Blenkinsop, Charles Oliver as Dr. Wilkinson, Raymond Huntley as Dr. Kerbishley, Percy Walsh as Inspector Blow, David Horne as Commissioner, Peter Gawthorne as Colonel, Wally Patch as Sergeant Major, Betty Jardine as Daisy, O. B. Clarence as Professor Mackenzie, John Salew as Mr. Tomboy, Cyril Cusack as Postal Sorter, Bill Shine as Hotel Porter, Sylvia Cecil, Edward Underdown, Marie Makine and Richard Cooper.
Jazz pianist Tom Stewart (Carlson), who lives on a Cape Cod island community, is preparing to marry his fiancee Meg. Shortly before the wedding, Tom’s old girlfriend Vi (Juli Reding) visits and informs him that she will end Tom’s relationship with Meg, using blackmail if necessary. While arguing on top of a lighthouse, the railing Vi is leaning against gives way. She manages to briefly hang on, but Tom refuses to help and watches her fall to her death.
The next day, Tom sees Vi’s body floating in the water. He retrieves her only to see the body turn into seaweed. Tom tries to forget what he’s seen, but over the next several days, all manner of strange occurrences happen. Vi’s watch washes up on the beach and mysterious footprints appear in the sand. Before long, Vi’s ghost appears and tells Tom that she will haunt him for the rest of his life.
One day, Meg’s little sister Sandy shows up and asks Tom if she can see the engagement ring. As Tom shows it to Sandy, he’s spooked by a disembodied hand that soon makes off with the ring.
Soon afterward, a party is held for Tom and Meg. Vi’s disembodied head makes a small appearance in a photo taken of Tom and Meg, and when he’s alone, Vi taunts Tom that she’ll now use her voice to tell the world how Tom Stewart killed her.
To add to Tom’s dilemma, a ferry-driving beatnik comes looking for Tom, intent on collecting the $5 Vi owes him for her trip to the island. Tom’s haste to pay the fellow off causes the shifty man to stick around, where his attempts to blackmail Tom lead to the ferryman’s death. However, unbeknownst to Tom, Sandy has inadvertently witnessed the murder.
At the wedding, Sandy keeps quiet about what she’s seen, but almost says something at the point in the ceremony where the clergy asks if anyone “can give reason why these two should not be joined in matrimony.” Before she can speak, the church’s front doors burst open and the flowers all begin to wilt as the candles die out, bringing the ceremony to an abrupt and unpleasant end.
Later that night, Tom goes to the lighthouse, telling Vi that he’s leaving the island. Soon after, Sandy listens in to what Tom says. When Tom finds her, he realizes that he’s now trapped; Sandy knows too much and could possibly tell Meg and the others. A desperate Tom leads Sandy up to the broken lighthouse railing with the intent to push her over. But just then, Vi’s ghost swoops down on Tom, causing him to go over the edge as Sandy watches.
Soon afterward, the islanders go searching for Tom’s body. However, the first one they find is Vi’s. Shortly afterward, Tom’s body is found and placed next to Vi’s body, which somehow manages to turn and lay its arm across his body. On Vi’s dead hand is the engagement ring that was supposed to be Meg’s, signaling that Tom is now stuck forever with Vi.
Directed by Bert I. Gordon, produced by Bert I. Gordon and Joe Steinberg, written by Bert I. Gordon and George Worthing Yates, starring Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon and Lugene Sanders.
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Stevenson, the founder of popular local rock music venue The Stone Balloon, says there’s much more to the story, claiming Jill and Joe’s relationship actually started in 1974, when he was still married to Jill.
“Jill, I met on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey, in August of 1969. Sure, I fell in love with her, because I married her six months later,” Stevenson said.
In her memoir, Jill says of her first marriage, “I truly believed we were destined for each other…looking back it may seem like a mistake of youth.”
According to Stevenson, both he and Jill first got to know Joe Biden when Biden was a county councilman in New Castle, Delaware. Stevenson says he asked for Biden’s help obtaining a liquor license. Stevenson also says he threw a fundraiser for Joe that raised between $2,500 and $3,000.
“We got married in ’70, I introduced Joe to Jill in ‘72. Right before the election in ‘72, Jill, Joe, Neilia and I were in his kitchen. How do you forget that?” Stevenson said.
That would be three years before the now-famous “blind date.” Stevenson says his first inkling something was up came when Jill refused to go with him to meet Bruce Springsteen, who was booked to appear at The Stone Balloon.
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