'CLARENCE DUNNE (John Tate) was an insignificant and eminently respectable clerk. But there came a day when the calculating of figures in a ledger became an unbearable drudgery. He rebelled, drew £l000 out of the bank, and, abandoning his family, disappeared under the name of Peter Lester. On a train he meets Milly Cobb (Betty Dickson) and her "brother," Eddie (Owen Ainley), a professional gambler, and they fleece the unsuspecting Clarence. Clarence takes odd jobs for a while, then he robs a bank, then decides to return home. When he arrives he finds his wife, Martha (Nancye Stewart), sprawled on the kitchen floor with a knife in her hand and her throat cut. He finds she is still alive and tries to help her. Then his son comes in and the circumstances are such that it looks as if Clarence will be charged with murder if his wife dies. To extricate himself he confesses to the crime he committed in the name of Peter Lester. However, Martha does not die and the confession would seem to have been made in error.'
Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 2 February 1952, p.13.
Adapted from American script Pursued (episode 152).
Broadcast by 2UW on 9 February 1952, from 8:30pm.
Cast includes John Tate, Betty Dickson, Nancye Stewart, and Owen Ainley.
