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Escapement(1958)
Status: Released
Date: 1958-03-04
41%
7 Votes
Time: 1h 20m
SWEET-FLESHED BEAUTY BECOMES DOCILE OF DEMONIACAL MONSTER!
Overview:
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.
Languages: English, French.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies:
Merton Park Studios
Movie: Escapement
Top 10 Billed Cast
Rod Cameron
Jeff Keenan
Mary Murphy
Ruth Vance
Meredith Edwards
Doctor Maxwell
Peter Illing
Paul Zakon
Carl Jaffe
Doctor Hoff
Kay Callard
Laura Maxwell
Carl Duering
Blore
Larry Cross
Brad Somers
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Overview
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.
Release Date
1958-03-04
Average
4.1
Rating:
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SWEET-FLESHED BEAUTY BECOMES DOCILE OF DEMONIACAL MONSTER!
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