Country:United Kingdom

Director:Basil Dearden

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

Basil Dearden had largely devoted himself to expertly tight crime dramas with a sharp moral sense but for his final film he arrived at a decidedly metaphysical position while elaborating a story Hitchcock had filmed for television. While driving one evening, Harold Pelham appears possessed and has a car accident. While on the operating table, there even appears to be two heartbeats on the monitor. When he awakes, Pelham finds his life has been turned upside-down: he learns that he now supports a merger that he once opposed, and that he apparently is having an affair.