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How Atrocious Well-nigh Allan
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Genre	Thriller
Based on	How Awful About Allan by Henry Farrell
Written past	Henry Farrell
Directed past	Curtis Harrington
Starring	Anthony Perkins Julie Harris Joan Hackett
Music past	Laurence Rosenthal
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Aaron Spelling
Producer	George Edwards
Cinematography	Armada Southcott
Editor	Richard Farrell
Running time	73 minutes
Production company	Aaron Spelling Productions
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 22, 1970 (1970-09-22)

How Atrocious Almost Allan is a 1970 American fabricated-for-tv set horror psychological thriller film directed past Curtis Harrington, the starting time of ii collaborations with author Henry Farrell (the other was What's the Matter with Helen?), and starring Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris. Information technology premiered every bit the ABC Movie of the Calendar week on September 22, 1970 and was produced by prolific television producer Aaron Spelling.

Plot [edit]

Allan Colleigh is suffering from psychosomatic incomprehension following a fire that killed his father, a renowned academic who punished Allan as a child. The fire also facially scarred Allan's sister Katherine. Allan had accidentally left some cans of paint thinner near a heater which caught burn down.

Returning home partially cured after months in a mental hospital, Allan tries to adjust to his life back at home. Katherine has an ex-swain who has gone away, but who phones the house afterwards Allan'south render. She besides takes in an odd boarder who she says has a pharynx injury and hence can only speak in a whisper. Allan is suspicious and agape of the new boarder and when he begins to hear his name being whispered and partially sees a nighttime effigy coming to get him, wonders whether he is crazy or whether someone is really out to get him. He records his suspicions on a reel-to-reel tape recorder in his bedchamber.

Olive, Allan's fiancée before his father died in the fire, tries to renew contact with Allan. He is, at first, reluctant but gradually is persuaded to see her again. He asks her to keep an centre out for the mysterious lodger so she can depict the lodger to him. Olive persuades him to accept a trip into boondocks in her motorcar. While she drops books dorsum at the university library, she leaves Allan alone in the motorcar and he thinks he hears the whispering again. He tries to drive the car away, only to crash it.

Later on farther incidents with the blurry, whispering figure – and Allan cutting himself with a knife upon being startled by a delivery male child at the kitchen window – Katherine tries to persuade him to see the psychiatrist again. Meanwhile, Olive claims to have seen Katherine's boyfriend in the boondocks. Katherine denies that he has returned, but Allan feels she is hiding something and suspects she wants to take him sent back to the hospital. Allan experiences diverse nightmares. In one he relives his punishment by his begetter, during which he hid in a dark closet. In another episode, the whispering phonation lures him to a room which seems burnt and where the ceiling timbers fall in. The side by side morning, he is convinced that the room was real. This belief is reinforced by his finding a piece of burnt wood in the house.

Allan calls the hospital, hoping to see the psychiatrist. Unfortunately, the doctor is away. Allan will have to take a cab to meet the doctor on his render. The cab duly arrives, but in going to meet information technology, Allan slips on the path. The cab commuter turns out to exist Eric, Katherine's boyfriend, who has a croaky whispering voice which he attributes to a cold. Olive, who has come looking for him, helps Allan back into the business firm. Later, after ensuring Alan is still alive although his door is locked, Olive and Katherine speak together and Olive says she volition send Allan dorsum to the hospital the next morning, every bit she cannot stand it whatsoever more. Allan had tried to convince Olive there was a plot against him, remembering that the whispering voice was on his tape recorder from the night earlier, but she is no longer in the room when the voice plays back. Allan smashes the record recorder on the floor.

Soon after, the whispering phonation lures Allan into the kitchen pantry and the door is locked behind him. He finds that a fire has been set up within, but douses information technology with some flour and manages to break the door down and wrestle with the shadowy attacker. Equally he pulls the figure's blackness mask off, his vision returns and he recognizes his sis, Katherine. He too removes the plastic "appliance" which she had adhered to her face to represent her scar. She confesses that she had the scar from the fire removed, simply says that it should have remained at that place as a brand to show all the world Allan's crime: the "murder" of their male parent, "the greatest human who ever lived".

Later on some fourth dimension has passed, Allan comes dwelling and talks to Olive, who is preparing dinner for them. He has been taking a music appreciation form and seems much more normal. However, he has received a letter from Katherine – who was evidently sent to a psychiatric facility – pleading with him to have her released. Equally he contemplates this, his vision goes dark – he is blind again.

Cast [edit]

Anthony Perkins as Allan Colleigh
Julie Harris as Katherine Colleigh
Joan Hackett as Olive
Kent Smith as Raymond Colleigh
Robert H. Harris as Dr. Ellins
Molly Dodd as the Inmate
Baton Bowles as Harold Dennis
Trent Dolan every bit Eric
Beak Erwin equally Dr. Ames
Jeannette Howe as Katherine (kid)
Kenneth Lawrence as Allan (child)

Production [edit]

The original novel was published in 1963. The Washington Post chosen information technology "ane of the well-nigh impressive novels of the year."^[i]

Perkins signed to make the picture in April 1970.^[2]

The moving-picture show was shot in 12 days.^[3]

Anthony Perkins had special contact lenses made that he could barely run into through, then he would be about blind while filming his scenes. He popped the lenses in just earlier filming and was led onto the set by a coiffure member.

Reception [edit]

The Los Angeles Times called it "non scary".^[four] The New York Times said information technology "had neither a thrill nor a chill."^[5]

References [edit]

^ MYSTERY & SUSPENSE: Allan'southward obsession, by Dorothy B. Hughes. The Washington Post, Times Herald 15 Sep 1963: BW22
^ Everly Brothers and Greenbacks to Team on ABC Los Angeles Times 06 April 1970: e16.
^ Speeded-Upward Films Favored by Perkins. Los Angeles Times 25 June 1970: e19.
^ Telly REVIEW: Movie of the Week Opener Murphy, Mary B. Los Angeles Times 23 Sep 1970: e22.
^ Tv set Review: A.B.C. Football Draws 33 % of the Audience By JACK GOULD. New York Times 23 Sep 1970: 95.

External links [edit]

How Awful Virtually Allan at IMDb
How Atrocious About Allan on YouTube
How Awful Almost Allan is available for gratis download at the Internet Archive
How Awful Near Allan at AllMovie