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Fear in the Night(1972)
Status: Released
Date: 1972-07-09
58%
62 Votes
Time: 1h 34m
Overview:
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?
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Fear in the Night
Top 9 Billed Cast
Joan Collins
Molly Carmichael
Peter Cushing
Michael Carmichael
Judy Geeson
Peggy Heller
Ralph Bates
Robert Heller
James Cossins
The Doctor
Gillian Lind
Mrs. Beamish
Brian Grellis
2nd Policeman
Jimmy Gardner
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
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