Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
- infidelity
- vampire
- scotland yard
- affectation
- exploitation
- inspector
- anthology
- decapitation
- curse
- wax museum
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Christopher Lee
John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
Peter Cushing
Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")
Denholm Elliott
Charles Hillyer (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
Joanna Dunham
Alice Hillyer (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
- Tom Adams — Dominick / Richard (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
- Robert Lang — Psychiatrist (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
- Joss Ackland — Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")
- Wolfe Morris — Waxworks Proprietor (segment 2 "Waxworks")
- Nyree Dawn Porter — Ann Norton (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
- Chloe Franks — Jane Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
- Jon Pertwee — Paul Henderson (segment 4 "The Cloak")
- Ingrid Pitt — Carla Lind (segment 4 "The Cloak")
- Geoffrey Bayldon — Von Hartmann (segment 4 "The Cloak")
- John Bennett — Detective Inspector Holloway (segment "Framework Story")
- John Bryans — Stoker (segment "Framework Story")
- Directed
- Peter Duffell
- Written
- Russ Jones, Robert Bloch
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 182 ratings
- Studio
- Amicus Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
