Saturday, 11 August 2012

Tales That Witness Madness (1973)



British portmanteau horror starring Donald Pleasance, Jack Hawkins, Michael Jayston, Joan Collins... It's a roll-call of British talent that was evidently desperate for work in 1973, really. Passes the time nicely.

2 comments:

Mr. Primate said...

Hadn't heard of this one before so looking forward to catching up.

valdemar said...

The 'classic' plot involves a distinguished (i.e. drives a Rolls) visitor to the asylum being shown around. I was amazed to see the visitor was Jack Hawkins, an actor best known for war films and quite a big star in the UK.

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