![]() Paulette Goddard, one more movie and a handful of TV appearances awayįrom retiring altogether. Stiff-upper-lip genre entry made on the cheap and starring a 44-year-old Other types of cinema as well, including noirish mysteries like Terenceįisher's The Unholy Four (1954), a seethingly suspicious and very Making Gothic horror films, from The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)Īnd Horror of Dracula (1958) onward. ![]() Hammer Films became famous and wealthy in between the '50s and '70s One of the most well-known British film production companies ever, Vic and Angie return to their home to resume their lives. Treherne and his officers, alerted by Angie, arrive and arrest Bill. Bill also admits killing Joan in order to cast suspicion on Vic. Bill eventually confesses that he attempted to kill Vic and killed Harry because he was paying too much attention to Angie. When Bill attempts to phone to confirm this, Vic disarms and overpowers him. Vic knows that Bill, like the others, has been pursuing Angie romantically and tells him that he has killed her. Vic then drives to Bill's house where Bill shoots him in the hand. Some time later, a drugged Vic wakes up with a poker in his hand and Joan's dead body nearby. After the meal, Bill mixes them all nightcaps. Although Vic now believes that Bill may have been the one who tried to kill him, he and Angie invite him to dinner. ![]() In order to save Angie, Joan concocts an account of how she was involved in the death, but is not believed. Later, Treherne feels that he may have enough evidence to arrest Angie for Harry's death. When Bill visits the mansion, he tries to persuade Vic that the attempt on his life was not perpetrated by any of his companions, although they all resented him, and that he has created this fantasy in his mind. Job, who suspects that Angie was responsible for Harry's death, offers to save her from arrest by confessing to that crime as well. During an argument, Job accidentally kills Sessions. Meanwhile, Sessions, the company accountant, is trying to blackmail Job, who has been embezzling from the company. After Treherne leaves, Angie tells Vic that her statement was true. After a bloody handkerchief, with the initial "V" on it, is found near the murder scene, Treherne is about to arrest Vic when Angie saves him by saying that she had given the handkerchief to Harry. Treherne then reminds Joan that she has a motive for incriminating Vic as Vic's company bankrupted her father, causing his suicide. ![]() Joan tells Treherne that she is concerned about Angie because she suspects Vic of killing Harry, who was in love with Angie. Later, Vic sends Joan and the servants away as he wants to spend time alone with Angie and hopes to force the killer to show his hand. Police inspector Treherne establishes that Harry was killed from a blow to the head by a steel pipe and states that he regards all at the cottage as suspects. Bill interrupts them with the news that Harry has been found dead at the mooring. Vic tells Angie that he suspects one of his three friends attempted to kill him and wonders if she, too, might have been involved in the plot. Vic woke up on a Mexican ship with no identification or memory. Vic tells Angie that he has had amnesia and can only remember being in a small Portuguese harbor when he was drugged, knocked out and left for dead by one of his business colleagues. Angie tells Vic that four years earlier, she received a telegram from Job in Portugal, where he, Bill, Harry and Vic were on a fishing trip, stating that Vic had disappeared. Vic carries her to a bedroom and, when she recovers, she embraces him saying that she knew he would come back. Soon after, the motor launch returns to its mooring and Angie walks into the kitchen and faints when she sees Vic. In the morning, over breakfast, Job and Bill ask Vic where he has been for four years, but he does not respond. Vic spots Angie in the distance, leaving on a motor launch. In the kitchen, Vic surprises Job, who drops a glass in astonishment at seeing Vic alive. When Vic asks a party guest where his wife might be, he is told that she is probably with one of his business partners, Job Crandall, Bill Saul or Harry Bryce. Joan tells him that his wife Angie is attending a party in the large cottage by the river on the mansion grounds. When businessman Philip "Vic" Vickers returns unexpectedly to his English mansion after a four year absence, he startles Joan Merrill, his wife's social secretary, as he had been presumed dead.
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