The Full Treatment (1960)

Director
Val Guest

Main cast
Claude Dauphin; Diane Cilento; Ronald Lewis; Françoise Rosay; Bernard Braden

Genres
Drama, Mystery

Description
British film, released in the United States as "Stop Me Before I Kill!". A few hours after their wedding, international racing driver, Alan Colby and his new wife Denise, are involved in a horrific car crash. Alan's physical injuries heal but the mental blackouts continue. Denise suggests a delayed honeymoon in the south of France and it is here that eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Prade, promises a complete treatment to cure Alan's suffering. The couple accept his offer unaware that it comes from a mind more hideously disturbed and psychologically unbalanced than Alan's.


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