An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.
Acting
Patricia Neal's brittle fragility masks volcanic repression.
Cinematography
Shadowy London interiors that breathe 1960s psychological dread.
Writing
Dialogue so arch it could support a cathedral.
Director
Alexander Singer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patricia Neal made this between her stroke recovery and her Oscar win for 'Hud,' still mastering speech and movement.
The film adapts a novel by Françoise des Ligneris, part of a wave of European psychological potboilers rushed to screen during the early 1960s 'adult drama' boom.
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