Pit of Darkness (1961)
When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered, and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house, has been cleverly opened, and the contents are missing. So with the help of his wife, he sets out to uncover the truth.
- Date of release
- 1961-10-01
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Director
- Lance Comfort
Casting
- William Franklyn — Richard Logan
- Moira Redmond — Julie Logan
- Bruno Barnabe — Bruno
- Leonard Sachs — Clifton Conrad
- Nigel Green — Jonathan
- Nanette Newman — Mary
- Anthony Booth — Ted
- Jacqueline Jones — Mavis
- Michael Balfour — Fisher
- Bruce Beeby — Peter Mayhew
Interesting facts
Pit of Darkness is a 1961 British thriller second feature ('B') film, directed and written by Lance Comfort and starring William Franklyn and Moira Redmond. It was based on the 1960 novel To Dusty Death by Hugh McCutcheon.The film is an amnesia thriller dealing with a man's attempts to piece together a sequence of strange events in which he seems to have been involved during the time of which he has no memory,
Production
The film was shot at Twickenham Studios in June 1961.
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