The Strange Awakening | |
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Directed by | Montgomery Tully |
Screenplay by | J. McLaren Ross |
Based on | novel Puzzle for Fiends by Hugh Wheeler (as Patrick Quentin) [1] |
Produced by | Alec C. Snowden |
Starring | Lex Barker Carole Mathews Lisa Gastoni Peter Dyneley |
Cinematography | Philip Grindrod |
Edited by | Geoffrey Muller |
Music by | Richard Taylor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Cinema Associates |
Release date |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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Motoring in the South of France, Peter Chance picks up a hitchhiker, and is attacked and left unconscious. Awaking in a villa with no memory of his identity, he is told by a woman claiming to be his mother that he is the heir to a fortune. When police investigate the death of his "father" Chance becomes suspicious and starts to investigate.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A summary of the plot does not do justice to this gripping version of the amnesia theme. The modest production successfully creates an atmosphere and the acting, though unremarkable, is always competent. A good 'B' melodrama." [4]
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