This is an odd offering which seems like a routine ( though badly-written ) crime thriller until twenty minutes before the end when it suddenly lurches into occult horror via sudden leaps of logic that are impossible for the ordinary viewer to follow. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing add some gravitas that the film doesn't really deserve. Diana Dors plays a murderous tart who's very obviously a red herring.
Colonel Bingham ( Lee ) is investigating the suspicious deaths of three members of a very wealthy trust whose main purpose seems to be running an orphanage on an isolated Scottish island. After a bus crash on a school trip , one of the girls, Mary comes into the hospital and seems disturbed concerning senior pathologist- why ?- Sir Mark Ashley ( Peter Cushing ) and psychiatrist Peter Hynes ( Keith Barron ) . When he is killed, apparently by Mary's ex-con mother Anna ( Diana Dors ) , Bingham and Asjhley head up to Scotland after her.
Gwyneth Strong ( as Mary )
Sex : n/a
Death : Throws herself off a cliff after catching fire
This was Gwyneth's first screen part at the age of 12. She has made sporadic film appearances but works mainly on TV , most famously of course as Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses. She is married to fellow actor Jesse Birdsall. She is now 58.
Georgia Brown ( as Joan Fraser )
Sex : It's implied that she sleeps with Haynes
Death : Survives
Georgia made her name as a singer in musical theatre but moved into straight acting in the seventies. She emigrated to the USA at the end of the decade and appeared in some US TV shows. She died on a visit to London in 1992 aged 58.
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