The Murder Clinic
Cast & Crew
Michael Hamilton
William Berger
Françoise Prévost
Mary Young
Barbara Wilson
Delphi Maurin
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Synopsis
At the turn of the century, Dr. Robert Vance runs a psychiatric clinic in a remote part of England. Plagued by a series of violent killings at the clinic in which young female deafmutes have been slashed to death with a razor, the doctor has few patients and lives in isolation with his wife, Lizabeth. Unknown to the small community, Lizabeth's sister Laura is also living at the clinic. Once a beautiful girl, she is now horribly disfigured from falling into a pit of quicklime. Although Vance had been blamed for the accident, he was acquitted because of lack of evidence. Mary, a new nurse, and a young woman arrive at the clinic; when the woman is brutally murdered with a razor, Vance persuades Mary to help him secretly dispose of the body. A short time later, Mary is attacked in her bedroom but saved by the cloak-shrouded Laura, who unmasks Lizabeth as the killer. When Laura accuses her sister of causing the quicklime accident because she was jealous of Vance's attentions, Lizabeth kills Laura and then commits suicide. With the death of the two sisters, Vance is free to begin a new life with Mary.
Director
Michael Hamilton
Cast
William Berger
Françoise Prévost
Mary Young
Barbara Wilson
Delphi Maurin
Max Dean
Harriet White
Philippe Hersent
Ann Sherman
William Gold
Grant Laramy
Patricia Carr
Anne Field
Crew
Julian Berry
Lewis E. Ciannelli
Massimo Giustini
Michael Hamilton
Martin Hardy
Richard Hartley
Montague Jackson
Marc Lane
Piero Lazzari
Frank Mason
Alberto Salvatori
Antonio Schiavolena
Oliver Scott
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Opened in Rome in June 1966 as La lama nel corpo; in Paris in October 1967 as Les nuits de l'épouvante. May also be known as The Murder Society. Michael Hamilton is a pseudonym for Elio Scardamaglia, Julian Berry for Ernesto Gastaldi, Martin Hardy for Sergio Martino, Marc Lane for Marcello Masciocchi, Richard Hartley for Alberto Gallitti, Frank Mason for Francesco De Masi, Oliver Scott for Dino Fronzetti, Montague Jackson for Roberto Pariante. One British source credits Walter Parkington as art director.
