Fragment of Fear
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Duration Country United Kingdom | 6.2/10 Genre Crime, Mystery, Drama Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 3 September 1970 (UK)September 1971 (USA) Cast (Tim Brett), (Juliet Bristow), (Mr. Copsey), (Signor Bardoni), Zakes Mokae Similar movies , Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii , Pompeii , The Last Days Of Pompeii , The Last Days of Pompeii , Further Up Pompeii Tagline Murder in Pompeii. Voices in the night. Despair in the gutter. A phantasmagoria of fright! |
An addict-turned-writer (David Hemmings) investigates the death of his aunt (Flora Robson), strangled in Pompeii.
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Fragment of Fear is a 1970 British thriller film, adapted from the book A Fragment of Fear by John Bingham, starring David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Roland Culver, Flora Robson and Arthur Lowe. The wild British jazz score composed by Johnny Harris was later used by Levis to soundtrack their European Kung Fu TV advertising campaign in the late nineties.
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Plot

Tim Brett (Hemmings) is a former drug addict who has written a book about his experience and has been published. He has been clean for about a year. He had recently become acquainted with his aunt (Robson), a philanthropist who expresses interest in helping some of Tims former acquaintances. She is found murdered soon after. Tim starts a relationship with Juliet (Hunnicutt), the woman who found his aunts body, and they are soon engaged.
Dissatisfied with the progress that the police are making in his aunts murder case, he begins to ask questions of some of his aunts acquaintances. He then begins to receive warnings from unknown persons to stop his inquiries. He meets an elderly woman on the train. She hands him a note of supposed comfort, asking him to read it at home. The note turns out to be a warning about leaving matters to the police, apparently typed on his own typewriter. Theres also an ominous laugh recorded on Tims own tape recorder, indicating that someone had been in his apartment.
Tim is then visited by a police sergeant, Sgt. Matthews, who informs him that the woman on the train had lodged a complaint against Tim. Sgt. Matthews takes Tims information but after the woman is also killed, Tim finds out that there is no sergeant by that name working at the police station. Tim is later assaulted on the streets at night by two men who leave him lying on the ground with a hypodermic needle. Tim throws the needle away down a gutter. He makes contact with a secret government agency which tells him that they are after the people who are threatening him, but all is - again - not what it seems to be. As the situation continues, Tim and Juliets wedding fast approaches.
Similar Movies
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937). Sleuth (1972). David Hemmings appears in Fragment of Fear and Murder by Decree. The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934). Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
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References
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