How Awful About Allan

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Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1970
Country: USA
Runtime: 73
Rating: 4.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Curtis Harrington
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making! All Of It Actually Filmed In The Fiji Islands!

Writing by: Henry Farrell - (novel "How Awful About Allan")
Henry Farrell - (teleplay)

Produced by: George Edwards - producer
Aaron Spelling - executive producer

Cast: Anthony Perkins - Allan
Julie Harris - Katherine
Joan Hackett - Olive
Kent Smith - Raymond
Robert H. Harris - Dr. Ellins
Molly Dodd - Inmate
Billy Bowles - Harold Dennis
Trent Dolan - Eric
Bill Erwin - Dr. Ames (as William Erwin)
Jeannette Howe - Kathrine as a child
Kenneth Lawrence - Allan as a Child

Music: Laurence Rosenthal
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Plot Outline: After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Plot: After a fire which killed his father and scarred his sister, a guilt-ridden victim of psychosomatic blindness is released from a mental hospital and goes back home to stay with his estranged sister. However, it appears that someone is out for revenge and wants to drive him crazy.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Special Thanks To The Andretti Family

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Katherine and Olive go to Allans room after Allan destroys the tape recorder, you hear the firm knocking on the door before Katherine even touches the door and after she touches the door.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Anthony Perkins had special contact lenses made that he could barely see through, so hed actually be nearly blind while filming his scenes. He popped the lenses in just prior to filming and was led onto the set by a crew member.