Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** Things went downhill fast for Belle Adams, Hayley Mills, right from the start in the crazy & bizarre film. Getting a ride to the Greenwood train station at a local truck stop. Belle is attacked by the horny trucker who just couldn't keep his eyes off her shapely legs instead of keeping his eye on the road. Being picked up by the drunk, he was celebrating his birthday, Stephen Slade, Simon Ward, a few minutes later Belle soon realizes that he's no better then the horny trucker who attempted to rape her! That in just how weird as well as disconnected from reality he is. Not getting in time to Greenwood to catch her train Belle soon forgets where she's going and stays with Stephen who seems to have developed a crush on her.Endlessly driving around the English countryside and seeming to be going nowhere Belle soon leaves Stephen to buy some groceries at a local Food-Mart. It's then that she's confronted by this what looks like grizzly looking six foot five inch Lepechaun Malcolm Roberts played by, who was touted back in the 1940's as being the most handsome man in Hollywood, the unkempt and disheveled Sterling Hayden. It's Roberts who soon finds out, by looking at the days newspaper headline, that a inmate escaped from the Greenwood Mental Hospital who from the photo fits the description of Stephen Slade. In tying to warn Belle about him Roberts comes up short in not being able to keep up with them in his hopped-up looking 1930's jalopy.****MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS**** In trying to figure out what's exactly going on in the movie we do get a major clue in a number of flashbacks involving Belle and her overly creepy and hot in the pants duck-billed looking Uncle Peter Jeffrey. It was Uncle Peter who molested Belle when she was a little girl that in fact ended up screwing up her head. And it was Belle's reaction to Uncle Peter's grouping and rape of her that in fact had her institutionalized! The trouble is that the clueless Stephen is totally unaware of that and in the end he's soon to become her next victim!

a_baron From a personal perspective, this film has much in common with "Schizo". I watched them both on the big screen shortly after they were released, and watched them again recently. Both are low budget efforts with somewhat improbable plots; both have dashes of nudity from the damsel – this with somewhat less; both have endings decidedly at odds with their respective narratives. And both deliver."Deadly Strangers" is part road movie, part mystery, and part psychological thriller. Clearly the road movie element is a tall order in a country a fraction of a size of the United States, but every work of honest fiction is entitled to some poetic licence.Herein, former child star Hayley Mills plays a young woman who clearly has issues, and just as clearly has more on her plate than missing the last train home. The big question: Is her enigmatic companion the escaped lunatic, and if so, will the police arrive in time? To find out for certain you must wait until the very end.

Scarecrow-88 British road thriller about an escaped maniac on the loose, having escaped from an insane asylum and killed a nurse. DEADLY STRANGERS follows two young adults, both with their own psychological hang-ups, Belle Adams(Hayley Mills), visiting her old childhood home, Stephen Slade(Simon Ward; FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED), a farm-equipment salesman..could one of these two actually be the the lunatic on the lam? Sidney Hayers may be best known for directing the cult favorite NIGHT OF THE EAGLE(BURN, WITCH, BURN!)and he keeps our interest by creating doubt for both characters we follow until the very end when the great revelation tells us the answer to that great mystery of who it is that broke free from Greenwood Mental Hospital. Slade is a sexual deviant who likes to peep on girls while they are undressing and we are privy to flashback memories as Stephen has uncomfortable developments with a lady love who finds bondage magazines, wondering why he seems impotent with her in bed. Belle lost her parents to a car crash, having to live with a sleazy, pedophile uncle who bursts in on her while she is bathing, attempting later to rape her, paying the consequences for his actions. Hayers has the difficult task of keeping us gripped by two people traveling by car through the British countryside, by including motorcycle bullies who try to rile up Slade, once in a diner, then later on the road by blocking him so he can not pass them..the result, a crash which offers the possibility that the rider was killed. Also interrupting their journey is an old American eccentric(portrayed with enthusiasm and gusto by Sterling Hayden, dressed as an aristocrat) with charm to spare and vocabulary to spark conversation which captures Belle's attention and cooperation(she has to ride, walk, and dine with him so he has to serve up something to get her to accompany him). Something Hayden reads in the newspaper motivates him to try to catch up with Slade, later to be elaborated when a policeman sees the same front page article(he pulled Slade over for a broken head light). The movie often immerses us into the lurid pasts of both leads and most of the characters Mills comes in contact with want to jump her bones. This will probably be most notorious for featuring Mills(of POLLYANNA & PARENT TRAP fame)in not only a bra and panties, but naked as well(not for very long, but just her breasts and ass is startling when you know her from the Disney success). While the subject matter can be a bit sordid, its not as violent(or as sleazy) as it could've been. The reveal I don't imagine will surprise anybody..

lazarillo A young woman (Hayley Mills) misses her train and is forced to hitchhike. After a misadventure with a horny truck driver who wants her to pay a "fare", she is picked up by a handsome but mysterious stranger (Simon Ward) who may just have escaped from an asylum for the criminally insane. This is a familiar role for Hayley Mills that she had basically performed several times before: the pretty dolly bird who meets a slimy creep that she is nevertheless somewhat sexually attracted to (except that her usual co-star Hywel Bennet is replaced here by Simon Ward). When she played this role back in "Twisted Nerve", however, she was still coming off her wholesome Disney image, and was appealing, but also pretty two-dimensional. In "Endless Night" she played a troubled heiress and had little more of a rounded character and performance. In this movie the back-story of her character, revealed in flashbacks where she is orphaned in a car accident and sent to live with a lecherous uncle, might make her even more troubled than the sinister young man who picks her up. (There is in fact a great twist at the end here that I don't want to reveal).Ironically, Mills first played this "endangered innocent" role as a child actress way back even before Disney in 1959's "Tiger Bay" (where she plays a pre-pubescent girl who steals a gun and befriends a murderer). It took her this long, in what was basically to be her last film, to get back to the acting and fully developed roles in which she first started. It was revealed years later that Mills had been offered, and nearly accepted, the title role in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita". And while that notorious role ruined the career (and perhaps life) of the actress who eventually took it (Sue Lyon), it might have actually been better for Mills than all the saccharine, cloying Disney movies she got typecast in.This is pretty much Mills show all the way. Ward is good but pretty functional. It's generally well directed by journeyman director Sid Hayers ("Assault", "Circus of Horror", "Revenge"). Sterling Hayden shows up in a cameo as an eccentric old coot (and his character's harmless flirtations with Mills have some unintentional sexual tension given that in real life she had recently married a man about Hayden's age). And, oh yes, and for those of you whose minds are in the gutter (along with mine), Mills also has some nice nude scenes. Good luck finding this as it is undeservedly very obscure today, but it's definitely recommended.