A 59-minute '70s telepathy thriller that disappears into itself — literally.
A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
Acting
Gerry Cowper's wordless, physically demanding performance as Alison.
Direction
Bridges' suffocating institutional framing, claustrophobic and precise.
Writing
Ambiguous script refuses easy answers about Alison's powers.
Director
Alan Bridges
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nearly vanished entirely — no known complete prints survived until a partial recovery from private collections in the 2010s.
Bridges made this between his acclaimed 'The Shooting Party' and 'The Return of the Soldier,' suggesting studio uncertainty about how to market its uneasy genre blend.
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