Still recovering from serious head injuries sustained in a car crash, motor racing driver Alan Colby and his wife Denise go on holiday to the South of France. There, Alan is suddenly and unexpectedly struck with a compulsion to strangle his wife. Hearing about this, Dr. David Prade, a local psychiatrist, offers to help, but his offer is rejected by Alan and he and Denise return to London.
The psychiatrist follows them there, convinced that sooner or later his services will be needed and that he should be close at hand. At first, all seems well with Alan, but then one morning he wakes from a long sleep to find that Denise has disappeared. Worse, all the evidence points to his having murdered her…..
Production Details
A Columbia Pictures Corporation presentation of a Hammer Film
Production.
Copyright MCMLIV by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. Ltd. All rights reserved
Megascope
MPAA Approved
RCA Sound System
Produced at Bray Studios
Based on the novel “The Full Treatment” by Ronald Scott Thorn
All characters and incidents portrayed, and the names used herewith are ficticious and the similarity to any names, characters or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Black & White 81 mins
Filming Began: 14th August 1959
UK Release: 4th March 1960
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Locations:
Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England
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Footnotes
In the introduction to the main filmography, we stated that only films described in their credits as Hammer productions would be eligible for inclusion. Well, this film is an exception we shall be making to that rule. The reasons for doing so are two-fold:- (a) it is included in all lists of Hammer Films, and (b) Falcon was a subsidiary of Hammer.
Actor Ronald Lewis also starred in Hammer’s Taste of Fear (1961) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965).
Bernard Braden was, like his wife Barbara Kelly, more well known as a TV personality than an actor and was host of programmes such as Criss Cross Quiz and On the Braden Beat in the 1960s. Another of his acting roles was also for director Val Guest in the documentary-style sci-fi thriller The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961).