A poor European made TV movie stars Peggy Ann Garner as the daughter of scientist Charles Jacquemar who is stabbed to death among a group of eight blind people (with the British movie star Dennis Price as a detective), harassed over the presence of some secret documents his enemies believe that she has. They don't get anywhere by slapping her silly, and the audience might find themselves slapping themselves silly trying to wake up through all the tediousness of this hour long thriller without thrills.
This seems to have been filmed for TV rather than videotaped, but surviving prints are absolutely horrible. I can't find any reference to this being a part of any anthology show, so it's difficult to say how this ended up airing on American TV or just played somewhere in Europe on movie screens. The pacing is ridiculously slow, performances are weak and the direction is flaccid. It's probably one of the worst discoveries of the golden age of TV I've ever seen, and even the presence of the young Garner can't save it. There seems to be no motivations for any of the characters, so many elements of important details missing, and the photography and set direction is extremely claustrophobic. It's one of those shows that you look on out of Amazement how it could have elements of a cold war spy Thriller and end up losing you more frozen then the Siberian wasteland.
This seems to have been filmed for TV rather than videotaped, but surviving prints are absolutely horrible. I can't find any reference to this being a part of any anthology show, so it's difficult to say how this ended up airing on American TV or just played somewhere in Europe on movie screens. The pacing is ridiculously slow, performances are weak and the direction is flaccid. It's probably one of the worst discoveries of the golden age of TV I've ever seen, and even the presence of the young Garner can't save it. There seems to be no motivations for any of the characters, so many elements of important details missing, and the photography and set direction is extremely claustrophobic. It's one of those shows that you look on out of Amazement how it could have elements of a cold war spy Thriller and end up losing you more frozen then the Siberian wasteland.