Man from Yesterday, The

Date: 1949
Director: Oswald Mitchell
Production Company: Harry Reynolds Productions

Stars: John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Marie Burke, Laurence Harvey
Location(s): Hertfordshire

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Storyline:

A woman asks a dominating psychic to contact her murdered fiancé but she is found dead soon afterwards.

Additional Information:

Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

Also known as ‘Temptations’ (US Title)

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Heading to the village for cigarettes, John Matthews (Laurence Harvey) asks Doreen Amersley (Gwynneth Vaughan) if she'd like to come along.

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On Saturday, Doreen's father Gerald arrives home.

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Mr. Amersley drives to the station to collect Julius Rickman who he's expecting to arrive from India. Alan Bourke directs us to the Railway Movie Database where this view is identified as the forecourt of Bricket Wood station on the line running between Watford Junction and St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.

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Making his way onto the platform, Gerald Amersley (John Stuart) waits for the connection from Southampton. Bricket Wood station can be seen in many films including 'She'll Have to Go', 'The Cuckoo Patrol', 'Up the Creek', 'Double Confession' and 'Night of the Demon'.

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The train pulls into the platform without Rickman on board. Bricket Wood station on Station Road at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire as found on the Railway Movie Database and brought to our attention by Alan Bourke.

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Watched by Julius who had arrived later the previous evening, Doreen suggests to John that they take her Aunt Doris out to play golf.

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Julius Rickman (Henry Oscar) explains to Doris Amersley (Marie Burke) that he is a spiritualist and that they may be of mutual assistance.

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Overhearing talk suggesting murder, Doreen asks her father about the inquest following the death of his sister's fiancé Cedric Fox.

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After Doris is found dead by the Maid, the menacing Julius walks with his arm around Doreen and asks her to come with him hen he leaves.

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Gerald comes across his daughter with Julius and is angered when overhearing part of their conversation.