Straight On Till Morning - Hammer Films

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By the early 1970s Hammer was finding it increasingly difficult to compete without the support of major American distributors. The double-bill of Straight On Till Morning and Fear in the Night were originally planned as TV movies, but were ultimately produced as low budget thrillers and distributed by EMI. Straight On Till Morning took its title from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and was the only Hammer assignment for Peter Collinson, who had previously directed Up the Junction and The Italian Job.

Rita Tushingham stars as Brenda, a young Liverpool lass who goes to London in search of the perfect man and a better life. Unfortunately, the seamy underside of London grabs hold of her when she falls for a handsome but psychotic young man named Peter (Briant). Becoming increasingly obsessed with Peter, Brenda begins to lose touch with both herself and reality and fails to recognize that Peter is a misanthropic murderer. An incredibly bleak thriller, Straight On Till Morning is a sardonic, nightmarish fairy tale that presents the flipside of early 1970s feminism.


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  Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, James Bolam, Tom Bell

  Peter Collinson

  96 mins

  1972



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  English

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  2 - will only play on UK / European DVD player or multi region player

  Usually despatched within 5 working days

£12.99 £6.99