Visiting Hours (1982)

Investigative television journalist Deborah Balin (Lee Grant) falls foul of a mentally deranged viewer and is brutally attacked in her home. She is taken into hospital by her friendly news show producer, Gary Baylor (William Shatner) and cared for by a dedicated nurse, Sheila Munroe (Linda Purl).

Deborah soon discovers, however, that far from her horrifying ordeal being over, it is in reality only just beginning.

Lurking in a darkened corridor near Deborah’s room is the psychopath who attacked her, a man called Colt Hawker (Michael Ironside). Deborah’s recent broadcast triggered off a painful memory from his unhappy childhood and now he intends to kill her.

It is not his intention that she should die easily. He is prowling with a six-inch blade and a camera to capture the agony on her face during the diabolically gruesome murder he has planned for her.

Visiting Hours gave Lee Grant another chance to display the dramatic talents that won her an Academy Award for Shampoo (1975) and nominations for The Landlord (1970) and Voyage of the Damned (1976).

Colt Hawker
Michael Ironside
Deborah Ballin
Lee Grant
Sheila Munroe
Linda Purl
Gary Baylor
William Shatner
Lisa
Lenore Zann
Vinnie Bradshaw
Harvey Atkin
Louise Shepherd
Helen Hughes
Porter Halstrom
Michael J. Reynolds
Denise
Kirsten Bishop
Connie Wexler
Deborah Kirshenbaum
Patricia Ellis
Elizabeth Leigh-Milne
Elizabeth Hawker
Maureen McRae
Mr Hawker
Dustin Waln
Sally Flavin
Dorothy Barker
Bridget
Tali Fischer
Fay Marcus
Sylvia Lennick
Florie
Frances March
Mrs Marsh
Mary Rathbone
Young Colt
Danny Silverman
Sally’s Boyfriend
Marty Starr
Grant
Jérôme Tiberghien
Clement Pine
Len Watt

Director
Jean-Claude Lord