The Intruder

Ex-Colonel, now stockbroker, Wolf Merton (Jack Hawkins), returns home to find his house being burgled by an armed intruder, Ginger Edwards (Michael Medwin), a former soldier who had fought courageously under his command in a tank regiment during the Second World War. Merton briefly questions Edwards on how he got into a life of crime, but the burglar escapes. Merton sets out to discover why one of his best men became involved in crime after he was de-mobbed, uncovering the events that led Edwards to this point through a series of flash-back episodes of events during the war and their contrasting fates after returning to civilian life.