Return of a Stranger (1961) (Part 2)

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Part 2 of the 1961 mystery film. Pam Allen and her husband John enjoy a happy life with their child in their new suburban life. But one night Pam see someone out in the street staring up at the house and later she bumps into the figure in the supermarket that sends her into a panic and reawakens an incident in her past she kept buried away. But then things start to get a little odd. She begins to receives anonymous phone calls, then her son seemingly disappears from school. It turns out that the man she says she saw was originally imprisoned for raping her as a teenager, but with police sceptical is her tormentor haunting her, or is she psychologically disturbed and imagining? Or is it something far more sinister than that?

Starring Susan Stephen, John Ireland, Timothy Beaton, Ian Fleming, Kevin Stoney, Patrick McAlinney, Raymond Rollett, Frederick Piper, Cyril Shaps, Denis Holmes, Cavan Malone, Patsy Smart, Shirley Cain, Annette Carrell, Ray Austin and Maureen Beck. This is an intriguing B feature in one of Susan Stephen's last films. The most striking fact is that for most of the film you never see the face of the figure Pam sees out in the street, which makes you wonder if what she sees is true, in her imagination or whether it could be one of her friends or husband that could be plotting against her. This part is notable for an elevator scene that stays long in the memory.

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