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Die Screaming, Marianne
Schrei nach Leben

UK 1971
produced by
Pete Walker for Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd
directed by Pete Walker
starring Susan George, Barry Evans, Christopher Sandford, Judy Huxtable, Leo Genn, Kenneth Hendel, Paul Stassino, Alan Curtis, Anthony Sharp, Martin Wyldeck, Jon Laurimore
written by Murray Smith, music by Cyril Ornadel

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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On the run from ... well someone in Portugal, young go go dancer Marianne (Susan George) hitches a ride with Sebastian (Christopher Sandford), who takes her all the way to London in his convertible. Once there, he persuades her to marry him - even though she doesn't really love him & tells him so. At the wedding though something goes wrong when the names of the husband  the witness are mixed up & she comes out married to Eli (Barry Evans), Sebastian's best friend. When Sebastian loses his temper about this, Marianne leaves him ... & temporarily moves in with Eli. & when Eli doesn't try to hit on her for 10 days, she freely offers him sex as compensation for his efforts, & tender love soon starts to bloom.

Sebastian meanwhile turns out to be more than he seemed, as he has known right from the start who Marianne was, & why she was pursued in Portugal, & now that he has lost her, his first way is back to Portugal, to sell her to the man after her, her own father, only known as the Judge (Leo Genn), & Sebastian makes sure he sells her for a high enough price.

Back in London, Eli is almost killed by 2 assassins disguised as policemen, & suddenly Marianne realizes she has been found out - & runs away. But when she finds out she can't make it on her own, she returns to Eli only to realize he has already hooked up with Sebastian, & Sebastian is more than anxious to get them to Portugal ...

In Portugal, Marianne, Eli & Sebastian meet up with the judge & Marianne's bitchy half sister Hildegard (Judy Huxtable), & it turns out the 2 of them want the number of a Swiss bank account from Marianne before she turns 21 (in 2 days), as on the account there are not only 700.000 Pounds but it also holds evidence that could send the Judge to jail. But the Judge is overjoyed gthat his daughter is back & suddenly for him the bank account takes second seat ... but not for Hildegard, who together with Sebastian plans a little deathtrap for Eli, & to torture the account number out of Marianne in a steam bath ... but the plan goes horribly wrong, the trap set for Eli - a car with sabotaged brakes - springs on the Judge - & Marianne makes it out of the steambath, & can lock herself in out of Sebastian's & Hildegard's reach.

So Sebastian comes up with another plan & uses Eli as bait to lure her to a nearby ruin ... but at the ruin, he & Hildegard are waiting, again trying to torture the numbers out of her ... but again she escapes, & puruing her, Sebastian falls down a hole in the ruin's floor to his death.

Marianne runs right into the arms of a policeman, who takes her to the morgue ... where she has to identify the corpse of Eli, who has since been murdered by Sebastian.

Then though she does something that I fail to understand: She goes back to the Judge's & now Hildegard's house where Hildegard is already waiting, & she doesn't seem in too light  a mood, as she is already trying to persuade the judge's servant Rodriguez (Kenneth Hendel) to help her torture & kill Marianne. But Rodriguez was always loyal to his master, & since Hildegard was in a way responsible for his death, Rodriguez kills her. Then he makes breakfast, serves it to marianne & informs her that the police might be interested in taking him with them ...

 

A solid British independent thriller, nothing big maybe & filled with lapses of reason, but  good genre entertainment, &, despite the catchy title, a far cry from Walker's later, more outrageous films  (which can be quite entertaining too on another level).

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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