Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
Direction
Muriel Box turns a hospital ward into claustrophobic hunting ground.
Acting
Muriel Pavlow's wordless terror in that bed—pure silent-film DNA.
Director
Muriel Box
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Muriel Box was one of Britain's few female directors in the 1950s, often smuggling feminist subtext into genre pictures the studios underestimated.
The hospital set was so cramped that cinematographer Reginald Wyer had to dismantle walls between takes to reposition cameras.
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