The lonesome daily routine of a top-notch Security Chief of a London auction-house, who’s a bit nerdy and unstable and so completely obsessed with his work that he even spies on his neighbours from his home seeing it not as an invasion of privacy but as the natural extension of his job, is interrupted when a scared female neighbour rings his doorbell to complain of a ski-masked stalker.
He helps her secure her apartment and falls for her, but she rejects his advances. Meanwhile, the auction-house handles a valuable Renaissance collection which includes a necklace said to bear a deadly curse. It belonged to a medieval nobleman who was betrayed by his wife and killed by her lover, a member of the notorious medieval Corvini assassin family. The jewellery supposedly continued to bring only betrayal, murder and madness to those who later owned it.
Production Details
© 1984 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, All rights reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited
ITV London Transmission Date: 15th October 1984
Locations:
Leith Mansions, Grantully Road, Maida Vale, London – Eva’s apartment building
City of Westminster College, 129 Elgin Ave, Maida Vale, London – College where Eva attends evening classes
Paddington Recreation Ground, London – Frank watches people in the park opposite his apartment with his binoculars
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Cast & Crew
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Footnotes
David McCallum played Illya Kuryakin in the MGM Television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Jan Francis starred the the BBC TV comedy series Just Good Friends.
Terence Alexander played Charlie Hungerford in the BBC TV series Bergerac.