Underplayed Gems

Pit of Darkness (1961)

Pit of Darkness poster
Directed by
Lance Comfort
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man wakes up with no memory of recent events and tries to figure out what happened to him. He uncovers clues suggesting he may have been involved in a crime.

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What happens

Pit of Darkness is a 1961 British thriller second feature ('B') film, directed and written by Lance Comfort and starring William Franklyn and Moira Redmond. It was based on the 1960 novel To Dusty Death by Hugh McCutcheon.The film is an amnesia thriller dealing with a man's attempts to piece together a sequence of strange events in which he seems to have been involved during the time of which he has no memory, (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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