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Escapement is a British film of genre Science fiction directed by Montgomery Tully released in USA on 1 may 1960 with Rod Cameron

Escapement (1958)

Escapement
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Released in USA 1 may 1960
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Genres Science fiction,    Crime
Rating46% 2.3420952.3420952.3420952.3420952.342095

Escapement is a 1958 black and white British science fiction film, known in the U.S. as The Electronic Monster. It was based on the novel Escapement by Charles Eric Maine (London, 1956).

Synopsis

Inquiring into the mysterious death of a Hollywood star, insurance investigator Jeff Keenan uncovers an exclusive psychiatric clinic on the French Riviera. Here, patients who want to escape the stresses of life are hypnotized, then laid out in morgue like drawers and left to dream for several weeks. It turns out that Dr. Zakon, the clinic's ex-Nazi owner, is using a "dream machine" to alter the sleepers dreams, and to impose his will on theirs.

Actors

Rod Cameron

(Jeff Keenan)Mary Murphy

(Ruth Vance)Meredith Edwards

(Doctor Maxwell)Peter Illing

(Paul Zakon)Carl Jaffe

(Doctor Hoff)Kay Callard

(Laura Maxwell)
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