Signpost to Murder
An escapee from an asylum takes refuge in a woman's house; but she has dark secrets of her own.
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"This film is a bit too neat for its own good. After a plausible set-up with Stuart Whitman as a murderer in an insane asylum, and hiding out after escaping to the creepy residence of Joanne Woodward, who lives nearby in a quaint English village. The film escalates into a romance between the two, as it revealed that Woodward's marriage is not quite up to par. I could have bought the fact that Whitman was unjustly charged with the murder that had put him away. I might have even bought the premise that a love-starved woman would hide him for the two weeks he needed to get a new trial (his p..."
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The Indian theatre and film community loved the film so much that they adapted it several times. It was adapted as a stage play "Dhummas", meaning fog, and was first made in Gujarati, then Marathi and finally in Hindi. Veteran theatre actress Sarita Joshi played the lead in all three versions. Then, it was made into the hit Hindi film Ittefaq (1969) with Nanda Karnataki and Rajesh Khanna, followed by a remake, also titled Ittefaq (2017).
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An escapee from an asylum takes refuge in a woman's house; but she has dark secrets of her own.