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Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
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Jennifer Jayne (writer)
Release Date:
31 October 1973 (USA)
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...Is it just your imagination or your Sanity that's in question? more
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Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running a Futuristic asylum housing four very special cases...
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1 nomination
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Tales That Provoke Boredom
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jack Hawkins | ... | Dr. Nicholas | |
| Donald Pleasence | ... | Dr. R.C. Tremayne | |
| Georgia Brown | ... | Fay Patterson (segment "Mr. Tiger") | |
| Donald Houston | ... | Sam Patterson (segment "Mr. Tiger") | |
| Russell Lewis | ... | Paul Patterson (segment "Mr. Tiger") | |
| David Wood | ... | Phillipe, the tutor (segment "Mr. Tiger") | |
| Suzy Kendall | ... | Ann Patrick / Beatrice | |
| Peter McEnery | ... | Timothy Patrick / Albert | |
| Neil Kennedy | ... | 1st Removal Man | |
| Richard Connaught | ... | 2nd Removal Man | |
| Beth Morris | ... | Polly | |
| Frank Forsyth | ... | The Evil Watcher / Uncle Albert (photo) | |
| Joan Collins | ... | Bella Thompson | |
| Michael Jayston | ... | Brian | |
| Kim Novak | ... | Auriol Pageant |
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Witness Madness
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90 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Rita Hayworth was to appear in the film but left after a short time on the set. She was replaced by Kim Novak.
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A Freddie Francis movie with Kim Novak, Donald Pleasence and Jack Hawkins... how bad can it be? Well, pretty lousy actually.
The movie starts with a car entering a psychiatric hospital. Then we hear from Dr. Tremayne that he's going to show us four extraordinary cases, after which we are subjected to them, in true porte-plumeau style. Err, wait a minute, wasn't there a movie called 'Asylum' (1972), a movie where (to finish this sentence, please re-read the paragraph above). So, by the end of the movie, you're pretty much expecting that the film will end in a similar way. Alas, it doesn't. The ending is even more ludicrous than the four stories you saw before. Yes, it's an invisible tiger. Yes, there's the story of Uncle Albert, a man on a painting who makes his next-of-kin ride on a bicycle (which makes them go back in time where they're observed by Albert, in the shape of a moving statue). Yes, it's a the man who falls in love with a tree (though, as he's married to Joan Collins, we cannot blame him). Yes, it's a man who has to devour the flesh of a maiden. And yes, the ending is even more ludicrous. (Although the last minute itself isn't too bad.)
Jennifer Jayne wrote only two movies (as Jay Fairbank). The other is "Son of Dracula" (1974). Avoid the ludicrous Tales and watch "Son of Dracula" and Roy Ward Baker's "Asylum" instead.