Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.
Production Details
A Hammer Production of The B.B.C. Sensation
United Programmes Sound System
Black & White 72 minutes
Filming Began: 31st July 1949
UK Release: 6th March 1950
Studio:
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire
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Footnotes
This was the debut film for actress Sheila Burrell, who also appeared for Hammer in “Cloudburst” (1951), “The Rossiter Case” (1951), “Women Without Men”(1956) and “Paranoiac” (1963).