Wealthy, beautiful and reckless Californian Julie Merriday (Joey Heatherton), accompanied by her attorney boyfriend Harry Lindsay (Nicolas Coster), narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle ridden by young Ben Gunther (Troy Donahue).
Ben abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists on calling her Barbara.
Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie’s Aunt Sarah (Jeanette Nolan) tells Julie that her great-great-grandmother was named Barbara and had given birth to an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Despite the protestations of her rich and ruthless tycoon father (Barry Sullivan) and Ben’s irrational conviction that she and he are reincarnations of the past lovers, Julie breaks off with Harry and elopes with Ben.
While aboard a small ketch which Ben claims he owns, Julie finds the earlier Benjamin’s diary, reads of his affair with her ancestor and realises that Ben lied and is, in fact, a psychotic killer who has escaped from an institution for the criminally insane.
It all ends with that old cliche, a chase up a tower – this time at a sand-processing plant on a California beach.
My Blood Runs Cold has some suspenseful moments, but it’s certainly no Hitchcock thriller.
Ben Gunther
Troy Donahue Julie Merriday
Joey Heatherton Julian Merriday
Barry Sullivan Harry Lindsay
Nicolas Coster Sarah Merriday
Jeanette Nolan Sheriff R. Seaton
Russell Thorson Lansbury
Ben Wright Mrs Courtland
Shirley Mitchell Henry
Howard McNear Mayor
Howard Wendell Mr Courtland
John Holland Owen Farley
John McCook Butler
Jean Paul King Anne Davis
Linda Meiklejohn Deputy Brady
John Truax
Director
William Conrad
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