How Awful About Allan

How Awful About Allan is a 1970 madefortelevision psychological thriller film, directed by Curtis Harrington, the first of two collaborations with writer Henry Farrell the other was Whats the Matter with Helen?, and starring Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris. It premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week on September 22, 1970 and was produced by prolific television producer Aaron Spelling.

Returning home partly cured after months in a hospital, Allan tries to adjust to his life back at home. Katherine has an exboyfriend who has gone away but who phones the house after Allans return. She also takes in an odd boarder who she says has a throat injury and hence can only speak in a whisper. Allan is suspicious and afraid of the new boarder and when he begins to hear his name being whispered and partially sees a dark figure coming to get him, wonders whether he is crazy or whether someone is really out to get him. He records his suspicions on a reeltoreel tape recorder in his bedroom.Olive, Allans fiancee before his father died in the fire, tries to renew contact with Allan. He is at first reluctant but gradually is persuaded to see her again. He asks her to keep an eye out for the mysterious lodger so she can describe the lodger to him. Olive persuades him to take a trip into town in her car. While she drops books back at the university library, she leaves Allan alone in the car and he thinks he hears whispering again. He tries to drive the car away, only to crash it. ........

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