Cinema: Tricky Quickie

Scream of Fear (Hammer; Columbia). "You must be dead." the stepmother (Ann Todd) murmurs with sinister sympathy as the wan little crippled girl (Susan Strasberg) turns her wheelchair wearily toward bed. Poor child, she hasn't had an easy life: a divorce in the family, a fall from a horse, nine years of physical limitation and nervous debility. Then suddenly her mother's death, and now an anxious new beginning in her father's house. Odd, come to think of it, that her father isn't there to meet her, but then of course business is business, and...

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