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“It started to burn. I didn’t think about it. I ran down the embankment and into the swamp, and that’s where the smoke started getting worse.”
Douglas Malcolm, who Derek once believed to be his father, returned from war in 1917 to discover his wife in love with another man, before taking a horsewhip and a pistol to shoot him dead.
Derek Malcolm obituary: Long-serving film critic for The Guardian whose own life story took a dramatic twist when he discovered his father had killed a man
Distinguished Guardian film critic who wrote with wit and charm for more than 25 years
The droll former Guardian film writer was an old Etonian ex-jockey whose father killed his wife’s lover, and who crossed swords with the Kray gang