Anno di produzione: 1963

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: UK
Genere: Horror Thriller
Lingue: English
Plot: A man being lost in love with the owner of a lodging house would do anything to satisfy her wishes. In order to proof his love for her she makes him free a dangerous maniac from the psychatric hospital. Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, is stranded in a cheap bar in Spain where he falls for Annette, the pretty daughter of the proprietor, played by Nadia Gray. Nadia Gray gradually shifts the young man's attentions to herself, rather than her daughter, and together Matthews and Gray concoct a plot to help Gray's estranged husband, now a homicidal maniac confined in an institution after a grisly series of killings dubbed "The Acetylene Murders" by the press, out of the mental institution so he can escape from the country. Paul Farell (Kerwin Mathews), a worthless drifter down on his luck, becomes entangled with Eve Beynat (Nadia Gray) and her daughter Annette (Lilliane Brousse), who run a small hotel in Southern France. Georges Beynat, Eve's husband, has been in an insane asylum for the past four years for blow-torching to death a man who raped his daughter, Annette. At first, Paul is interested in Annette, but Eve easily manipulates Paul into helping her husband Georges escape from the insane asylum by pretending that she loves Paul and wants to go away with him. With Paul and Eve's help, Georges escapes, but instead of leaving the country as he had promised, the killings soon start again, with a blowtorch invariably used as the murder weapon. As Inspector Etienne (George Pastell) becomes suspicious, we discover that the man who escaped is not Georges Beynat at all, but rather Henri (Donald Houston), a male nurse at the asylum, who has fallen in love with Eve Beynat during her visits to her husband. Henri has killed Georges Beynat, and now plans to kill Annette, who has discovered the deception. Eve lures Annette to a rock quarry, where Henri waits for her.
Visti censura internazionale: Finland:K-16 Sweden:15
Date di uscita internazionali: Dati tecnici: Suono: Durata: Movielink - film simili: psycho
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