Come Out
Come Out,
Wherever You Are
(ITC Movie title "Come Out Come Out, Wherever You Are")
Original UK transmission: 29th June 1974
Original US transmission: 10th September 1974
WRITTEN BY: Brian Clemens
DIRECTED BY: John Sichel
PRODUCED BY: John Sichel
MAIN CAST: Lynda Day George (Cathy More), Peter Jeffrey
(Dexter), John Carson (Arthur Lewis), Colette O'Neil (Alice
Lewis), Bernard Holley (Paul Eastman), Richard Corbet (Reeves),
Kathleen Mallory (Jane Howard), John Line (Davis), Molly Weir
(Miss Pendy), Kevin Brennan (Parminter)
Teaser
Sequence
The camera pans across a
deserted leafy glade where an abandoned castle sits. Two girls
pull up in a car, one of them keen to go up to the top to take
some photos and the other reluctant to do so. The brunette with
the camera talks her friend into going and they enter the castle,
but are followed promptly by a faceless figure. They reach the
tower which is exposed and unfenced, and the blonde girl looks
disinterestedly across the glade while her friend busies herself
with taking photos. Suddenly, she hears a scream and turns to see
the girl with the camera scrambling to prevent herself from
falling over the edge.
Plot
Summary
American tourist Cathy More
wakes up in her English country hotel to find that her travelling
companion has vanished mysteriously in the night. The gruff hotel
owner denies any knowledge of the girl and insists that only one
person had checked in the night before, but the wife views her
drinking husband with some suspicion. A police detective is
called in and it begins to look as though Cathy may be mentally
disturbed when, unexpectedly, traces of the missing girl begin to
show up in the hotel. The owner is immediately suspected, but is
there in fact some other factor at work here?
Comments
An ingenious whodunit with a twist, as we're never really sure
whether the missing girl even existed in the first place. Peter
Jeffery is in fine form as the larger than life detective Dexter,
and the rest of the cast does an admirable job backing him up.
Quite a few good twists throughout too. The
"flashbacks" Cathy continually suffers from are very
effective in generating an air of mystery and suspense. John
Carson had previously starred in "Possession", while Lynda Day George's
husband Christopher George would appear in the following story.
Worth seeing.
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