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When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
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- TriviaThe little girl to whom Ackland (John Mills) is talking on the bus, is Mills' real daughter, Juliet Mills.
- Quotes
Jim Ackland: I didn't give up! I didn't give up!
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They Don't Get Much Better Than This!
The superb John Mills plays a man with a history of emotional imbalance. He moves into a rooming house peopled by the sorts who might be charming in a Barbara Pym novel. Here they are increasingly less charming: There's the classic nosy landlady. There's an elderly resident who begs for more coal on the fire: The way she's written to do this made me think of a leitmotif from an Eliot poem.
There's a homely bachelor; there's an attractive young woman involved with a married man. And, there are assorted eccentrics thrown in as well.
Mills meets Joan Greenwood, she of the dark, husky voice. And a murder takes place.
That's all I will say, lest I give anything at all away: Try hard to see this little beauty of a film, knowing as little of the plot in advance as I did. Indeed, before today, I had never heard of it.
If it were an American film of this period it would be called a film noir. It has all the elements but I don't think I'd call it one. It's a psychological thriller, a mystery.
The secondary roles are cast superbly in every case. It's tense, filled with fascinating characters -- it lacks almost nothing. And the two stars could scarcely be better.
There's a homely bachelor; there's an attractive young woman involved with a married man. And, there are assorted eccentrics thrown in as well.
Mills meets Joan Greenwood, she of the dark, husky voice. And a murder takes place.
That's all I will say, lest I give anything at all away: Try hard to see this little beauty of a film, knowing as little of the plot in advance as I did. Indeed, before today, I had never heard of it.
If it were an American film of this period it would be called a film noir. It has all the elements but I don't think I'd call it one. It's a psychological thriller, a mystery.
The secondary roles are cast superbly in every case. It's tense, filled with fascinating characters -- it lacks almost nothing. And the two stars could scarcely be better.
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- Jul 31, 2007
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- Also known as
- Zarobljenik straha
- Filming locations
- Amersham Hill, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(Bridge over railway where Jim contemplates suicide.)
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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