The Price of Silence

Gordon Jackson is released from prison after a one year's sentence for embezzlement by mistake and tries to start a new life, but no one wants to employ a former jailbird, so he changes his name, and is lucky enough to actually get a good job, doing well and earning the confidence of his employer, an aged man past his prime with a young slender wife who actually tries to seduce Jackson out of sheer boredom in her sexless marriage. Jackson is thoroughly straightforward and resists her a number of times - this is a modern case of the wife of Potiphar. When he gets into trouble because of a blackmailer, gradually involving even murder, that wife betrays him lying to the police, and so the jam gets thicker. It's a fine little thriller with excellent cast, and I have never seen Gordon Jackson better. All the three women, all opposites to each other, gives the drama balance, and the male characters, also quite opposite types, makes the film more than worth while.