Before I Wake

6/1/19561h 16m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ If I die before I wake this note will reveal The Killer... ~

Overview:

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

Director:

Albert S. Rogell

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

Cast

Mona Freeman

~ as ~

April Haddon

Jean Kent

~ as ~

Florence Haddon

Maxwell Reed

~ as ~

Michael Elder

Hugh Miller

~ as ~

Mr. Driscoll

Gretchen Franklin

~ as ~

Elsie

Frederick Leister

~ as ~

Dr. Elder

Alexander Gauge

~ as ~

Police sergeant

Josephine Middleton

~ as ~

Mrs. Harrison

Frank Forsyth

~ as ~

Jack Storey

Stanley Van Beers

~ as ~

Harry

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
Though it's all entirely predicable, this, I still quite enjoyed it. "April" (Mona Freeman) returns home for the funeral of her father who was tragically killed in a boating accident. Her stepmother "Florence" (Jean Kent) shows all the outward signs of sympathy, but as the details of her father's death emerge, "April" beings to smell a rat. Things are only compounded when the reading of her father's will doesn't quite deliver what was expected! Is "Mona" just an hopeless paranoiac or might there really be danger? It's all just a little to rushed and convenient at the end, but the story is quite menacingly delivered by a jobbing cast rattling through a simple story of greed. Maxwell Reed features sparingly but adds very little to what is really a film about two strong women, some cigarettes and a few bottles of VSOP.