I Thank a Fool (1962)
Who is Fool? The Woman Who Would Kill for Love? The Wife Who Would Give Her Life for Her Love? Or the Husband Who Would Look "Elsewhere" for Love?
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
- Date of release
- 1962-09-14
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Robert Stevens
Casting
- Susan Hayward — Christine Allison
- Peter Finch — Stephen Dane
- Diane Cilento — Liane Dane
- Cyril Cusack — Captain Ferris
- Kieron Moore — Roscoe
- Richard Wattis — Ebblington
- Athene Seyler — Aunt Heather Chandler
- Miriam Karlin — Woman in the Black Maria
- Laurence Naismith — O'Grady
- J.G. Devlin — Coroner
- Clive Morton — Judge
- Richard Leech — Irish Doctor
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