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A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
Paul Brooke
- Uneasy Man
- (uncredited)
Mike Mungarvan
- Mr. Harris's Client
- (uncredited)
Guy Standeven
- Man on Park Bench
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe title is a quotation from J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan": Peter tells Wendy that Never Neverland is "second star to the right, and straight on till morning".
- GoofsBrenda lives with her mother in Liverpool and tells her she is going to London, however the opening establishing shots of "Liverpool" were actually filmed in Battersea, London.
- Alternate versionsThe BBFC cut the film in 1972 for an X rating.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The World of Hammer: Chiller (1994)
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A bizarre combination of social realism and psychological thriller
Straight on Till Morning is certainly one of the most atypical films that Hammer Studios ever produced. It begins like a social realist kitchen-sink drama, replete with fragmented snapshot montage editing similar to Ken Loach's Up the Junction – incidentally, a film remade by Peter Collinson the director of this film. And for the first third of the film it seems like this is going to be another such gritty drama, however, it takes an unexpected detour when it suddenly turns into a psychological thriller. It's an extremely unusual combination that isn't entirely successful but definitely interesting. In actual fact it's one of Hammer's more intriguing efforts in my opinion because it's so weird.
The story is about a naive young girl called Brenda who moves to London to try and find a man. She winds up staying with a very strange foppish man called Peter who is in fact a serial killer of women.
The social realism and montage heavy editing is entirely at odds to anything else Hammer ever put out. This is a film that has way more in common with the British New Wave than it does with anything previously produced by the famous studio. None of the characters are particularly likable, with the men in particular very creepy and/or deeply unpleasant people with appalling haircuts. The central relationship between Brenda and Peter is, to put it mildly, bizarre. It's difficult to see what either of them sees in each other; while Peter's strange issues with beauty are a little hard to fathom. Nevertheless, I thought this one was not bad at all. It wasn't predictable in the way that most Hammer films tend to be. It was pretty bleak and overall a commendably uncommercial offering. Definitely worth a look if you like downbeat psychological dramas.
The story is about a naive young girl called Brenda who moves to London to try and find a man. She winds up staying with a very strange foppish man called Peter who is in fact a serial killer of women.
The social realism and montage heavy editing is entirely at odds to anything else Hammer ever put out. This is a film that has way more in common with the British New Wave than it does with anything previously produced by the famous studio. None of the characters are particularly likable, with the men in particular very creepy and/or deeply unpleasant people with appalling haircuts. The central relationship between Brenda and Peter is, to put it mildly, bizarre. It's difficult to see what either of them sees in each other; while Peter's strange issues with beauty are a little hard to fathom. Nevertheless, I thought this one was not bad at all. It wasn't predictable in the way that most Hammer films tend to be. It was pretty bleak and overall a commendably uncommercial offering. Definitely worth a look if you like downbeat psychological dramas.
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- Nov 23, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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