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Silent Hours

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Synopsis

When three women are brutally murdered in four days, private detective John Duval, an ex-Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in the police hunt for a sexual killer stalking the rain-grey naval city of Portsmouth during the Silent Hours - navy slang for the night period on a warship between ‘pipe down’ and ‘call the hands’ wherein the ship runs silent and dark...

Aware that he is their mark, Duval leads the police in a shadow-dance as he purports to pursue his own search for the allusive killer and, with the aid of psychiatrist Dr Catherine Benson, uncover the tortured psychology that is motivating the murders. But as his investigations progress and his involvement deepens, what emerges exponentially from those shadows are disturbing revelations of Duval’s own past.

Silent Hours: the murderer is different from other human beings in degree not in kind.

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Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Features
Running time: 155 mins
Format: 2K Digital
Director: Mark Greenstreet
Producer: Emma Pounds
Executive Producer: Jonathan Willis, Grace Miglio, Peter Clayton, Ken Brown
Editor: Mark Greenstreet
Screenwriter: Mark Greenstreet
Director of Photography: Alfie Biddle
Production Designer: Sue Tanner
Sound: Henry Milliner
Composer: Guy-Roger Duvert
Principal cast: James Weber Brown, Indira Varma, Dervla Kirwan, Hugh Bonneville, Andrew Whipp, Timothy Watson, Annie Cooper, Susie Amy, Danny Webb, Gary Powell, Alistair Petrie
Associate Producer: Dervla Kirwan
Marine Coordinator: Ian Creed

Genre

Action Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Gallery Pictures Ltd

Emma Pounds
T: +44 (0)1730 823 992
E: info@gallerypictures.co.uk

www.gallerypictures.co.uk

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