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Taste of Fear (1960)

Director: Seth Holt

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From Time Out Film Guide

An above-par Hammer thriller, scripted by Jimmy Sangster and brazenly plagiarising Clouzot's Les Diaboliques as wheelchair-bound Strasberg arrives to visit her father on the Riviera, believes she sees his corpse (more than once), but is told that he's away on a trip. The plotting is very contrived indeed, but thanks partly to Douglas Slocombe's camerawork and to taut, shock-cut editing, Holt manages a tour de force of brooding, genuinely unsettling atmosphere.

Author: GA 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Seth Holt

Producer: Jimmy Sangster

Cast: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers

Duration: 81 mins


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