A crime drama rather than the fantasy a synopsis suggests. I don't wish to go into too much detail discussing the plot since the murder that provides the narrative with its mainspring is the first thing you see before the credits have even started, and what makes the film worth watching is figuring out WHY the murder was committed rather than how by whom and what part Francesca Annis's clairvoyant powers take in it's exposure.

Although Richard Conte is technically the star, pride of place surely goes to Miss Annis, who evidently impressed someone at Fox while she was playing Elizabeth Taylor's handmaiden in 'Cleopatra' enough to entrust her with title role in this Lippert quickie (made at Shepperton by 'B' movie stalwart Reginald Le Borg) in which she plays a seventeen year old guttersnipe "born and raised in a Liverpool slum" who went into an orphanage at 12, boasts "I stopped playing dolls when I was six years old", is reviled as "a nasty child and a liar", whose first question when temporarily allowed out is to ask "Got a light?" and justifies her appalling table manners by stating "I've been hungry for years!"

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Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.

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