Before I Wake
If I die before I wake this note will reveal The Killer...
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Release Date
February 10, 1955
Popularity
0
Director
Albert S. Rogell
Writer
Robert Westerby
Producer
Steven Pallos
Producer
Charles Leeds
Where to Watch
Cast
Mona Freeman
April Haddon
Jean Kent
Florence Haddon
Maxwell Reed
Michael Elder
Hugh Miller
Mr. Driscoll
Gretchen Franklin
Elsie
Frederick Leister
Dr. Elder
Alexander Gauge
Police sergeant
Josephine Middleton
Mrs. Harrison
Frank Forsyth
Jack Storey
Stanley Van Beers
Harry
Frank Atkinson
Taxi driver
Philip Ray
Station master
Robert Sansom
Parson
Phyllis Cornell
Dr. Elder's receptionist
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
Though it's all entirely predicable, this, I still quite enjoyed it. "April" (Mona Freeman) returns home for the funeral of her father who was tragically killed in a boating accident. Her stepmother "Florence" (Jean Kent) shows all the outward signs of sympathy, but as the details of her father's death emerge, "April" beings to smell a rat. Things are only compounded when the reading of her father's will doesn't quite deliver what was expected! Is "Mona" just an hopeless paranoiac or might there really be danger? It's all just a little to rushed and convenient at the end, but the story is quite menacingly delivered by a jobbing cast rattling through a simple story of greed. Maxwell Reed features sparingly but adds very little to what is really a film about two strong women, some cigarettes and a few bottles of VSOP.
