Stranger in the House
Just when the sounds make you feel crazy ... and the lights shine right through your head ... and everything starts to fly ...
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
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Cast

James Mason
John Sawyer

Geraldine Chaplin
Angela Sawyer

Bobby Darin
Barney Teale

Ian Ogilvy
Desmond Flower

Pippa Steel
Sue Phillips

Clive Morton
Col. Flower

Moira Lister
Mrs. Flower

James Hayter
Harry Hawkins

Megs Jenkins
Mrs. Christoforides

Lisa Daniely
Diana Sawyer

Yootha Joyce
Shooting Range Girl

Toni Palmer
Doorwoman

Sheila White
Hazel (uncredited)

Rita Webb
Mrs. Plaskett (uncredited)
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
This is an odd choice of Simenon novel to adapt into a film. It provides for a good role for James Mason as the drunkard solicitor "Sawyer" - a bright, intelligent operator who has hits the skids somewhat after his wife abandoned him, and he became oddly estranged from his daughter "Angela" (an effective, almost aloof Geradine Chaplin), with whom he shares a home. Otherwise, the rest of the roles are weak, wet even. When her boyfriend "Jo" (Paul Bertoya) is accused of a murder, "Sawyer" determines to raise his game and defend the young man. To be fair, this is a small tour de force for the star, who does deliver well. The rest of the story borders on the facile. The collective surrounding "Angela" - a bunch of wealthy no-hope wasters with Bobby Darin and a very dapper looking Ian Ogilvy, are thoroughly disengaging and but for a suitably grumpy performance from James Hayter as chief magistrate "Hawkins" one could reasonably be forgiven for reaching for the fast forward button. The ending, doubtless a superlative piece of deduction from Mason is almost irrelevant - by this point I really couldn't care less about any of the characters and, indeed, may well have reached for a glass myself (it's not yet 10am, so perhaps not!). At best it's a mediocre short story that has little enough to sustain it for the viewer, sorry.
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