A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Sydney Bromley
- Trampas Tramp
- (uncredited)
Laurie Leigh
- Woman #1as Woman #1
- (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
- Woman #2as Woman #2
- (uncredited)
Colin Tapley
- Vicaras Vicar
- (uncredited)
Jack Taylor
- Sailoras Sailor
- (uncredited)
Eleven years earlier, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All that remains of the family is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of funds; his mentally fragile sister Eleanor; and his protective aunt Harriet. Simon is just weeks away from receiving his inheritance, but there is a hitch in his plans when the long believed dead Tony Ashby suddenly arrives. —L. Hamre
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Paranoiac (1963) ***
I'd never seen this Hammer film before and I finally dug it out from my Universal Hammer Collection. What a pleasant surprise it was. It is so refreshing sometimes to see black and white photography at a time when Hammer was known for its colour, and that moody b&w style really compliments this disturbing tale of a family of oddballs and what happens when one of their clan who drowned himself as a boy returns. Oliver Reed drinks as much as he did in real life here (it ultimately killed Reed) and he's really excitingly over the top. A hidden gem in some ways, PARANOIAC is well-scripted by Jimmy Sangster, and nicely directed by Freddie Francis. The more I think about it, the underrated Francis was often better than Terence Fisher. *** out of ****
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- JoeKarlosi
- Feb 22, 2009
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