In spite of an obvious lack of means ,a thriller ahead of its time: from "the eyes of Laura Mars " to countless profilers with extrasensory powers , this potboiler for the great film noir character actor Richard Conte is interesting mainly for its subject .Treatment fails to sustain a real suspense.
For instance,the first sequence is a spoiler ,and mars the plot :it would have been better not to explain the disappearance of the victim in the first place ;besides Francesca Annis does not possess Pamela Franklin's mystery and magnetism (see" the third secret" or our mother's house") .And Richard Conte was able to portray a subtler character ,although his lines are not devoid of humor ("she 's more able to swallow Margaret 's cooking than the victim's aura!")
Reginald Le Borg's works, although often made on small budgets,are sometimes worth to have a look at: "destiny " (1944;co-directed with French Julien Duvivier) "the flight that disappeared" ( the moral of which is not unlike that of "the day the Earth stood still" or his Maupassant adaptation ("diary of a madman ,loosely based on "le horlà")