File
It Under Fear
(ITC Movie title "File It Under Fear")
Original UK transmission: 2nd June 1973
Original US transmission: 19th October 1973
WRITTEN BY: Brian Clemens
DIRECTED BY: Bill Hays
PRODUCED BY: John Sichel
MAIN CAST: Maureen Lipman (Liz Morris), Richard O'Callaghan
(George Bailey), James Grout (Superintendent Cramer), John
Lemesurier (Stubbs), Colin Fisher (Sergeant Truscott), Rose Hill
(Mother), Richard Pendrey (Gerry Masters), John Nightingale
(Steve Kerroway), Jan Francis (Gillie Randall), Jenny Quayle
(Betty), Georgina Melville (Jackie), Sue Bond (Karen)
Teaser
Sequence
At night, a man in uniform
watches as a girl carrying an armful of books disappears into an
underground walkway. He begins to follow her, but as she exits
and proceeds across a small bridge she becomes alarmed and turns
back to check behind her. Seeing nothing, she spins around only
to be attacked from the front. She screams and the bundle of
books fall to the ground, followed by her lifeless hand.
Plot
Summary
Neurotic librarian Liz becomes increasingly distressed as several
girls in her area go missing and are then found murdered.
Determined not to become the next victim, she decides to pursue
her own investigations...but no one wants to listen when she
thinks she has the answer.
Comments
A very lacklustre episode. No one really seems to shine in this
one and the whole plot seems a bit derivative and uneventful.
Compared to the heights that Thriller would soon reach, this
instalment is positively dreary.
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