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Director:
Freddie Francis
Writer:
Jimmy Sangster (writer)
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Release Date:
15 May 1963 (USA) more
Tagline:
When it comes to love or murder ... there's no one as dangerous ... as the ... Paranoiac!
Plot:
Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Janette Scott ... Eleanor Ashby

Oliver Reed ... Simon Ashby
Sheila Burrell ... Aunt Harriet
Maurice Denham ... John Kossett
Alexander Davion ... Tony Ashby
Liliane Brousse ... Françoise
Harold Lang ... RAF Type
Arnold Diamond
John Bonney ... Keith Kossett
John Stuart ... Williams
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Canada:80 min | USA:80 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Quotes:
Simon Ashby: [stumbles through the door inebriated]
Aunt Harriet: Where have you been?
Simon Ashby: [smirk on his face] I've been drinking.
[Looks at the liquor on the bar in the entryway]
Simon Ashby: Now I need to drink some more.
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Referenced in The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
great plot twists, 12 November 1998
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Author: Elliot-10 from New York

You've often seen suspense movies in which a sudden revelation reverses everything that's come before. (Vertigo, for example.) In Paranoiac -- one of a raft of Psycho-inspired suspense thrillers from the early 60s-- these reverses come along practically every minute. The plot twists and re-twists itself over and over: Oliver Reed's brother is dead; no, he's alive, his sister saw him; no, his sister is crazy; no, Reed is trying to to make people think his sister is crazy so he can steal her inheritance; no... and that's just the first 10 minutes or so of this ingenious thriller. Highly recommended.

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