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Journey to the Unknown (film)

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Presented by
  
Joan Crawford

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Starring
  
Vera Miles Patty Duke

Written by
  
Robert Heverley Alfred Shaughnessy

Directed by
  
Michael Lindsay-Hogg Don Chaffey

Music by
  
Norman Kay David Lindup

Journey to the Unknown is a 1970 British made-for-television horror-thriller anthology film starring Vera Miles and Patty Duke, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Don Chaffey, derived from two episodes of the 1968–69 television series, Journey to the Unknown. Joan Crawford is featured as hostess in a library setting who introduces the two segments: "Matakitas is Coming" and "The Last Visitor".

Contents

"Matakitas is Coming"

  • Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  • Writer: Robert Heverley
  • Cast: Vera Miles, Leon Lissek, Gay Hamilton
  • Original airdate: November 28, 1968
  • June Wiley (Vera Miles) is a criminologist doing research on a dead 1920s serial killer named Matakitas (Leon Lissek) who finds herself alone and trapped in the library where 41 years earlier he killed the librarian.

    "The Last Visitor"

  • Director: Don Chaffey
  • Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy
  • Cast: Patty Duke, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Bayldon
  • Original airdate: January 2, 1969
  • Barbara King (Patty Duke) is a young woman on holiday at a seaside resort hotel who is stalked by a mysterious prowler which the proprietress of the resort, Mrs. Walker (Kay Walsh), informs her is her estranged, psychotic husband.

    References

    Journey to the Unknown (film) Wikipedia