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Maniac (1963)

86 min  -  Crime | Horror | Mystery  -   30 October 1963 (USA)
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An American painter has an affair with a bar owner is a French village and agrees to help her murderer husband escape from a prison for the criminally insane.

Director:

Michael Carreras
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Cast

Cast overview:
Kerwin Mathews ...
Paul Farrell
Nadia Gray Nadia Gray ...
Eve Beynat
Donald Houston Donald Houston ...
Georges
Liliane Brousse Liliane Brousse ...
Annette Beynat
George Pastell George Pastell ...
Inspector Etienne
Arnold Diamond Arnold Diamond ...
Janiello
Norman Bird Norman Bird ...
Salon
Justine Lord Justine Lord ...
Grace
Jerold Wells Jerold Wells ...
Giles
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Storyline

Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, is stranded in a cheap bar in France 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. Written by Wheeler Winston Dixon  

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Plot Keywords:

France | Maniac | Lodging House | Painter | Blow Torch  | See more »

Taglines:

stalks his wife ... his daughter ... their lover!

Genres:

Crime | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English | French

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

The Maniac See more »

Filming Locations:

Carmarque, France See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hammer Film Productions See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Trivia

Donald Houston is dubbed See more »

Quotes

Georges: You take a man's wife, Mr. Farrell, but not his money?
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Connections

References Psycho (1960) See more »