Top cast:Mary Fuller,Marc McDermott,Herbert Prior
Director:Tinto Brass
Genre:Romance
Region:Australia
Year:2015
Storyline:Marlowe's single-handed pursuit and investigation of pervasive corruption and treachery is met with deception, hreats of extermination, and violence (although most of the killings are discreetly committed off-screen).] Bergman was very effective in the role of the vulnerable young wife who becomes helpless as she experiences a debilitating nervous breakdown and near insanity while living with her mysterious husband in the home where her beloved aunt was murdered.There were a number of light-hearted jokes in the film, e.g., (1) the film's running joke about the American correspondent's embarrassing loss of his distinctive and respectable English bowler hat three times - it was stolen, left in a cab, and blown off in he wind, and (2) a rattled pedestrian trying to cross a busy village street.The device dropped to the ground, shattered in pieces and lying on the ground next to the wounded alien, who had been hit in the upper left shoulder.After saving her from the police and proceeding on, he wants his hand back.As "a fugitive from the laughing house," she doesn't explain any more about her background:Hammer: Can I have my hand back now? (Pause) So, you're a fugitive from the laughing house.