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    Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)

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    In 1951, Alfred Hitchcock made a superb film called Strangers on a Train. It had a screenplay by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith. A superb cast headed by Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman and Leo G Carroll revelled in the Hitchcock brand of filmmaking.

    Warner Bros. utilised their 21-year contract rights and remade it here on the cheap with Frank Tarloff taking over Chandler’s job and Robert Sparr given the job of doing a “Hitchcock” (in his last directing project). Neither was equal to the task.

    Psychiatrist Dr Haggis (Whit Bissell) is treating crazed bikini beauty Diana Granger (Carol Lynley) who has psychotic tendencies.

    When she overhears him planning to have her returned to another institution she wants him dead, recruiting drunken pro golfer Jerry Marshall (Paul Burke).

    Diana knows that Jerry hates his (superior) rival Mike Wilson (Philip Carey) and makes a pact with him to kill each other’s target. He doesn’t take her seriously until she kills Wilson with Jerry’s golf club. Now, she expects him to kill her doctor.

    It’s a terrible, pointless remake that is painful to watch.

    Director Robert Sparr died in a plane crash on 28 August 1969 while scouting locations for Barquero (1970) and Once You Kiss A Stranger was released posthumously.

    Diana Granger
    Carol Lynley
    Jerry Marshall
    Paul Burke
    Lee Marshall
    Martha Hyer
    Pete Delaney
    Peter Lind Hayes
    Mike Wilson
    Philip Carey
    Lt. Tom Gavin
    Stephen McNally
    Dr David Haggis
    Whit Bissell
    Sharon Livingston
    Elaine Devry
    Margaret Granger
    Kathryn Givney
    Announcer
    George Fenneman
    Johnny Parks
    Jim Raymond
    Harriet Parks
    Maura McGiveney
    Raymond
    Orville Sherman
    Lee’s Mother
    Ann Doran

    Director
    Robert Sparr

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