The Very Edge (1962)

Directors

Cyril Frankel

Cast

Anne Heywood, Jack Hedley, Jeremy Brett, Richard Todd

The story

Happily married couple Tracey and architect Geofrey are expecting their first child, when, one fateful day, a maniac breaks into their home and assaults Tracey, causing her subsequent miscarriage. Initially unable to cope with life after the attack, Tracey is unresponsive to her husband, and her great trauma does not heal easily. Even after moving home, taking a holiday, and showing his wife every consideration, the strain of waiting for a second attack by the obsessive stalker, and his wife's continuing frigidity, tempts Geoffrey to start an affair with his secretary, who's confessed to falling in love with him whilst supporting him…

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