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Peter Collinson (writer)
Scott Forbes (play)
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Release Date:
15 March 1968 (Finland) more
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If what happened in"The Penthouse" happened to you . . . you wouldn't want to talk about it, either.
Plot:
Three thugs--Tom, Dick and Harry (a woman)--break into the penthouse apartment of an adulterous couple and proceed to terrorize them, but as it turns out, things aren't exactly what they seem to be. | add synopsis
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Suzy Kendall ... Barbara Willason
Terence Morgan ... Bruce Victor
Tony Beckley ... Tom
Norman Rodway ... Dick
Martine Beswick ... Harry
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96 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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4 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
#1 on the all time most forgettable list, 12 May 2002
Author: richard winters (rwint) from Chicago, Illinois

Two thugs, armed with nothing more than a a very small knife, take over a couple's 'love nest' almost at will. They then proceed to 'terrorize' them which consists of nothing more than talking for the next ninety minutes. The only action comes, literally, when one of the thugs takes a sausage out of the refrigerator and eats it.

There is a certain stylish quality mixed in with some 60's kitsch that,at the beginning, gives it a certain avant-garde quality. This though is soon killed by it's very pedestrian script. The thugs go from being child like to dumb and the couple is just plain boring. Why we should have any concern for these people is about as nebulous as to why any of this is even happening. The whole thing is stretched out so much that one is incredulous to believe that the director really thought any viewer would find this even remotely gripping or suspenseful.

Flat and forgettable. The only distinction this has is to see just how boring and uninvolving a film purported to be a 'thriller' can be. It's hard to imagine that there could be anything worse.

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