Taste of Fear (Scream of Fear) (1961)
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The British writer/director team of Jimmy Sangster and Seth Holt was never satisfied unless it scared the bejeepers out of its audience. Scream of Fear stars Susan Strasberg as the crippled daughter of Ann Todd, whom she meets for the first time during a vacation on the Riviera. There's… More The British writer/director team of Jimmy Sangster and Seth Holt was never satisfied unless it scared the bejeepers out of its audience. Scream of Fear stars Susan Strasberg as the crippled daughter of Ann Todd, whom she meets for the first time during a vacation on the Riviera. There's something unsettling about Strasberg's surroundings and her mother's behavior. But when Strasberg insists that she's seen the dead body of her father, it is she who is considered off the beam, while everyone else is treated as normal. Perhaps the authorities are right; perhaps Strasberg is merely neurotic and overwrought. And perhaps there's more than one plot twist ahead of us as we draw nearer and nearer the truth. Scream of Fear was originally released in Great Britain as Taste of Fear. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Seth Holt
- Written By
- Jimmy Sangster
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 22, 1961 Limited
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
The story has more twists than a pretzel, and they're all just as delicious.
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Cast
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Susan Strasberg
as Penny Appleby
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Ronald Lewis
as Bob
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Ann Todd
as Jane Appleby
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Christopher Lee
as Dr. Gerrard
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Leonard Sachs
as Spratt
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Anne Blake
as Marie
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John Serret
as Inspector Legrand
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Fred Johnson
as Father
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Bernard Browne
as Gendarme
