This mad scientist film is intriguing but lengthy and lacks any very sympathetic characters.
The story owes something to The Tingler. Hugo Cunningham ( Robert Stephens ) is an aristocratic dilettante meddling in both psychic research and photography. He discovers that a being - the asphyx- materialises just before one dies and can be trapped in a beam of light, thus preventing death . Unhinged by a double family tragedy, he plans to become immortal. Robert Powell plays his adopted son and accomplice.
Jane Lapotaire ( as Christina )
Sex : No
Death : Accidentally guillotined
Jane has the main female part in this but it's not a very rewarding role.
Fiona Walker
Sex : No
Death : Drowns in a boating accident
Fiona was a London-born actress who made her film debut in Far From The Madding Crowd in 1967. She was a busy but un-starry actress for three decades . She seems to have retired not long after being in the ill-fated TV soap El Dorado.
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