Escapement

An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.

Cast

Rod Cameron

as Jeff Keenan

Mary Murphy

as Ruth Vance

Meredith Edwards

as Doctor Maxwell

Peter Illing

as Paul Zakon

Carl Jaffe

as Doctor Hoff

Kay Callard

as Laura Maxwell

Carl Duering

as Blore

Roberta Huby

as Verna Berteaux

Felix Felton

as Commissaire

Larry Cross

as Brad Somers

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