Black Legend (1949)
A dramatic retelling of the brutal double murder of Martha Broomham and her son Robert perpetrated by her husband George and his mistress Dorothy Newman on 23 February 1676.
Top billed cast
Robert HardyMad Thomas
Alan CookeThe Prosecutor
John SchlesingerThe Judge
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