Maniac

Fairly screeching opening, from Jimmy Sangster’s original screenplay, we meet handyman Janiello (Arnold Diamond) in extreme close-up, observing innocent Annette (Liliane Brousse) after school, on the genuine location near the French Mediterranean coast, Michael Carreras directing, in Hammer Films’ Maniac, 1963, with Kerwin Mathews and Nadia Gray.

American Jeff (Kerwin Mathews), who’s supposed to be painting in southern France, visited by Eve (Nadia Gray), Mme. Beynat, from whom he’s renting a room, looking to win his attention away from her fetching daughter, and providing the link, which we could only have inferred so far, to the opening murder, in the Hammer Films thriller Maniac, 1963.

Following the nasty murder of a handyman, in southern France, by the father of schoolgirl (Liliane Brousse) he assaulted, she appears again as we meet leading man Kerwin Mathews, as American Jeff, serving him a drink, with local cop Salon (Norman Bird), when his fuming English girlfriend (Justine Lord as Grace) arrives, in the Hammer Films contemporary thriller, Maniac, 1963.

Having fixed the juke box at the road-house where he’s lodging in remote southern France, American Jeff (Kerwin Mathews), abandoned by his wealthy girlfriend, hangs with cop Salon (Norman Bird) then dances with enchanted hostess Annette (Liliane Brousse), her mother (Nadia Gray), the proprietor, worried, in Hammer Films’ Maniac, 1963.

An American drifter in Provence is tricked into helping a murderer escape an insane asylum in Maniac (1963).