Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

In London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.

Top credits

Directors

David Miller

Writers

Cast

Doris Day — Kit Preston
Rex Harrison — Anthony Preston
John Gavin — Brian Younger
Myrna Loy — Aunt Bea

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Doris Day's costumes for this film were created by Irene, a well-known, single-named designer who received her second Oscar nomination for her work here. Two years after working on this film, Irene committed suicide, jumping from an upper-floor window of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel.

• Doris Day vowed to never make another thriller after this movie, claiming it emotionally drained her. She stayed true to her word; until her retirement eight years later, and the only movies she made were comedies.

• In her autobiography, Doris Day wrote that to prepare herself for one of the terror scenes, she recalled a time when her first husband, trombonist Al Jorden, dragged her out of bed when she was ill and pregnant and hurled her against a wall. Day related that in the scene she wasn't acting hysterical, she was hysterical, and at the end of the take, she collapsed in a real faint. She was carried to her dressing room, and Producer Ross Hunter shut down production for a few days while she recovered.