NO PLACE TO HIDE

US, 1981, 100 minutes, Colour.
Kathleen Beller, Keir Dullea, Mariette Hartley.
Directed by John Llewelyn Moxey.

No Place To Hide is an effective telemovie thriller. It is a re-working by English writer Jimmy Sangster of his 1971 telemovie A Taste Of Evil. This in turn was a re-working of his 1961 thriller A Scream Of Fear. The director of A Taste of Evil was John Llewelyn Moxey who also directs this film.

Themes arising from the plot and characterization are much the same. In this re-working, Kathleen Beller (of The Betsy, Promises In The Dark, Fort Apache The Bronx) is an attractive heroine who is coming of age. Her mother is concerned about her sanity because she keeps seeing someone trying to kill her but cannot prove it . As the plot goes on it soon appears that Mariette Hartley as mother (like Barbara Stanwyck in Taste, of Evil) is the villainess. She is in league with a psychiatrist who has been the person terrorizing Kathleen Beller. The villains receive their comeuppance because the lawyer has been shrewd and suspicious. There is quite some entertainment in what has become routine material.