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It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?Read moreLess
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
The story
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Watch trailerCast & crew
Joan CollinsMolly Carmichael
Peter CushingMichael Carmichael
Judy GeesonPeggy Heller
Ralph BatesRobert Heller
James CossinsThe Doctor
Gillian LindMrs. Beamish
Brian Grellis2nd Policeman
Jimmy GardnerPsychiatrist (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Writer
- Jimmy Sangster
- Director
- Jimmy Sangster
- Editor
- Peter Weatherley
- Director of Photography
- Arthur Grant
- Writer
- Michael Syson
- Producer
- Jimmy Sangster
- Original Music Composer
- John McCabe