Movie
Fear in the Night
Overview
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Details
- Release date
- 1972-07-09
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Joan Collins as Molly Carmichael
- Peter Cushing as Michael Carmichael
- Judy Geeson as Peggy Heller
- Ralph Bates as Robert Heller
- James Cossins as The Doctor
- Gillian Lind as Mrs. Beamish
- Brian Grellis as 2nd Policeman
- John Bown as 1st Policeman
- Jimmy Gardner as Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Crew
- Jimmy Sangster - Director
- Michael Syson - Writer
- Jimmy Sangster - Writer
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