Paranoiac
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Freddie Francis
Janette Scott
Oliver Reed
Liliane Brousse
Alexander Davion
Sheila Burrell
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Attending a memorial service for her deceased parents, Eleanor Ashby glimpses a shadowy figure which she believes to be her brother Tony, who supposedly committed suicide 7 years earlier. The incident provides Eleanor's other brother, Simon, and her Aunt Harriet with further proof that the highstrung girl is mentally unbalanced and therefore not entitled to her share of the family fortune. Now doubting her own sanity, Eleanor attempts to throw herself off a cliff but is rescued by Tony, who claims that he merely disappeared and that there was no suicide. After convincing the family solicitor of his identity, Tony moves into the Ashby mansion, where he experiences several violent attacks upon his life. While conducting his own investigation, Tony falls in love with Eleanor and, to justify her incestuous feelings, is forced to admit that he is only posing as her brother. Simon is unmasked as a paranoid who murdered the real brother and hid his body in the house's chapel. When Tony's corpse is discovered, Simon, by now hopelessly insane, knocks the imposter unconscious and ties him up in the chapel. Aunt Harriet sets fire to it in an effort to destroy all evidence of Simon's crime; but Eleanor rescues her friend and leads him to safety. Simon, overcome with guilt, races into the burning chapel to save his brother and perishes in the flames.
Director
Freddie Francis
Cast
Janette Scott
Oliver Reed
Liliane Brousse
Alexander Davion
Sheila Burrell
Maurice Denham
John Bonney
John Stuart
Colin Tapley
Harold Lang
Laurie Leigh
Marianne Stone
Sydney Bromley
Jack Taylor
Crew
H. C. Allan
Molly Arbuthnot
Roy Ashton
Arthur Banks
Les Bowie
Rosemary Burrows
Ray Corbett
Albert Cowland
Jack Curtis
Charles Davis
John Draper
Arthur Grant
Moray Grant
James Groom
Hugh Harlow
Robin Higginson
Eric Hillier
Anthony Hinds
John Hollingsworth
A. F. Kelly
Basil Keys
Elisabeth Lutyens
Ross Mackenzie
Don Mingaye
Tommy Money
James Needs
Ken Nightingall
David Osborne
Ken Rawkins
Curtis Reeks
Bernard Robinson
Ken Ryan
Jimmy Sangster
Frieda Steiger
Al Thorne
Kit West
Maureen White
Pauline Wise
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Released in Great Britain in September 1963.
