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Cast
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| Rita Tushingham | ... | Brenda Thompson | |
| Shane Briant | ... | Peter Clive | |
| James Bolam | ... | Joey | |
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Katya Wyeth | ... | Caroline |
| Annie Ross | ... | Liza | |
| Tom Bell | ... | Jimmy Lindsay | |
| Claire Kelly | ... | Margo Thompson (as Clare Kelly) | |
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Harold Berens | ... | Mr. Harris |
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John Clive | ... | Newsagent |
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Tommy Godfrey | ... | Mr. Godfrey |
| Mavis Villiers | ... | Indian Princess | |
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Lola Willard | ... | Customer |
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Tinker | ... | Tinker |
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Shy Brenda Thompson writes naive children's stories to amuse herself. Stifled and desperate for a man of her own, she leaves Liverpool, telling her mom she's pregnant, and gets a job in a boutique in London. She moves in with the promiscuous but good-hearted Caroline but the mod set shuns her for her plain looks. Then she kidnaps a strange young man's dog, so as to perhaps get to know him while returning it. The young man turns out to be Peter, a psychopath with a predilection for killing beautiful things. He renames Brenda Wendy, and they start a hopeful, if strange, relationship. It might have a chance, if it weren't for Peter's murderous secrets. Written by Leo
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August 1974 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Music by Annie Ross
Lyrics by Annie Ross and John Peacock
Sung by Annie Ross
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A tin of 'Collinson's Coffee' appears in Peter's kitchenette; this is an in-joke referring to the director, Peter Collinson. See more »Goofs
When Peter leads Brenda/'Wendy' into her room for the first time, a crew member is clearly visible, crouching down from the doorway. See more »Alternate Versions
The BBFC cut the film in 1972 for an X rating. See more »Soundtracks
Straight On Till MorningMusic by Annie Ross
Lyrics by Annie Ross and John Peacock
Sung by Annie Ross
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I hadn't seen this movie for decades because it hasn't been shown on terrestrial TV for years, but I decided to buy the Region 1 DVD release (there's no official Region 2 UK release as yet) and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Well it's difficult to dislike Rita Tushingham in any film, but it's directed in such a great style by the late/great Peter Collinson (director of The Italian Job (1969)fame), with a bleak beginning that could only be Britian of the 1960's/1970's and with a real snap shot of how things were in London back then.
This is a very different type of film from Hammer, when compared to their usual offerings and must have been truly shocking back then with it's level of cruelty, but it's a classic movie you simply have to own and the fact it's unavailable in the UK (the very place it was made & with an all British cast) is scandalous.