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Crescendo (1969)
Director: Alan Gibson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This lazy variation on script-writer Jimmy Sangster's Taste of Fear (1961) is further crippled by the lack of Seth Holt's assured direction. At a villa in southern France, American heroine Powers gets mixed up with a strange widow (Scott), her invalid, heroin-addicted son (Olson), and their attentive maid (Lapotaire). When the maid is murdered, Powers is drawn into a conspiracy by the scheming widow, while the son drives himself crazy with nightmares about being murdered himself. Some cursory soft-core sex scenes fail to enliven the mechanical plot, and the contrived ending never rises to the promised crescendo.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Alan Gibson
Producer: Michael Carreras
Cast: Stephanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire, Joss Ackland full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 95 mins
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