Christopher Lee |
Sally Sandford (Betta St. John), who lives with her parents in the staid British town of Deanbridge, is rather unsatisfied with her boyfriend, Bob (Peter Grant), even though he's felt they would get married ever since childhood. Into town comes the striking and wealthy industrialist John Preston (Christopher Lee of The Gorgon), who begins buying up buildings and businesses and sweeps Sally off of her feet. When Sally accepts John's proposal, the latter realizes that he needs to enter married life with a clean slate, so to speak, so grudgingly speaks to psychologist Peter Walton (Alexander Knox of Son of Dr. Jekyll) about recurring nightmares in which he murders a blond woman, Sylvia (Sandra Dorne), with the complicity of her jilted French husband (Patrick Holt). But are these really dreams, or is something more sinister going on? What do you think?
Patrick Holt with Lee |
Verdict: Stick with Lee in Hammer horror films where he really made an impression. *1/2.
Lee has a very very soft spoken and mild-mannered persona, so it's a good thing he went into horror playing those menacing characters. That's what made him such an elegant villain, I suppose...
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He didn't chew the scenery, but he had a a certain intensity that certainly worked well with his villainous portrayals.
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