Movie
Maniac
Overview
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Details
- Release date
- 1963-05-20
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Horror, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kerwin Mathews as Paul Farrell
- Nadia Gray as Eve Beynat
- Donald Houston as Georges
- Liliane Brousse as Annette Beynat
- George Pastell as Inspector Etienne
- Arnold Diamond as Janiello
- Norman Bird as Salon
- Justine Lord as Grace
- Jerold Wells as Giles
- Leon Peers as Blanchard
Crew
- Michael Carreras - Director
- Jimmy Sangster - Writer
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