UK, 1977
16mm film, colour, 1.33:1
mono, English
A British short fantasy film directed by Ferdinand Fairfax. The black Ford Granada Mk1 driven by the mystery driver was later used in the films The Long Good Friday (1980) and The Medusa Touch (1978).
Plot Summary
Following a fatal motorway crash, a doctor talks to a journalist about the mysterious “perfect driver” he and his wife once followed and whose identity he obsessed over. But the journalist turns out to be the ghost of the man killed in the crash.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Ferdinand Fairfax
© [not given on screen]
An Illustra Film production. A Central Office of Information film for The Department of Transport
Produced by: Barry Palin
Written by: Ferdinand Fairfax
Photographed by: Mike Dodds
Edited by: Andrew Vere, Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Sound: Ivan Sharrock *
Cast
Barrie Ingham (the journalist)
David De Keyser (the doctor)
Pamela Salem (the wife)
References
Periodicals
- Audio Visual vol.6 no.66 (June 1977) p.24 – review
- BISFA Magazine no.61 (May 1977) p.15 – note
- Films and Filming vol.23 no.12 (September 1977) p.46 – review
- Video and Film International (June 1977) p.13 – review
