Two on a Guillotine

Two on a Guillotine (1965)

Wouldn't you like to learn how to flip your lid? If you're chopping for entertainment, here's the super shocker of them all.

The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?

Date of release
1965-01-13
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (38)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Mystery, Horror
Director
William Conrad

Casting

Interesting facts

Two on a Guillotine is a 1965 American horror film produced and directed by William Conrad and starring Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, and Parley Baer. The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar. The plot follows a young woman who must spend seven nights in the isolated mansion of her father—a deceased, deranged illusionist—in order to inherit his fortune.

Production

Two on a Guillotine was one of a series of movies financed by Warner Bros which were made by directors who had previously worked primarily in television, such as Conrad, Lamont Johnson and Jack Smight.

Filming started in June 1964, and lasted three weeks.

Stevens was under contract with Warner Bros. She said, "I thought the script was stupid when I read it but I came away thinking, 'yeah, it could have happened.' That's the challenge, to make something like this believable." She made the movie immediately before her series Wendy and Me, and asserted that it "could have been a Class A thriller if they'd spent more money on it." She noted that the feature did garner Conrad a seven-year contract with…

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