I Thank a Fool
Who is Fool? The Woman Who Would Kill for Love? The Wife Who Would Give Her Life for Her Love? Or the Husband Who Would Look "Elsewhere" for Love?
6.1
7 votes
September 14, 1962
1h 40m
Drama
Overview
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
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Cast
Susan Hayward
Christine Allison
Peter Finch
Stephen Dane
Diane Cilento
Liane Dane
Cyril Cusack
Captain Ferris
Kieron Moore
Roscoe
Richard Wattis
Ebblington
Athene Seyler
Aunt Heather Chandler
Miriam Karlin
Woman in the Black Maria
Laurence Naismith
O'Grady
J.G. Devlin
Coroner
Clive Morton
Judge
Richard Leech
Irish Doctor
Brenda De Banzie
Nurse Drew
Yolande Turner
PollyM
Marguerite Brennan
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