What Mad Pursuit

What Mad Pursuit

1985 · 55 min · ★ 10.0 · TV Movie, Drama

If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the chance of a quiet weekend away from it all in a remote corner of Long Island? Of course you would. Well, let what happened to Evan Lorrimer be an awful warning....

Directed by Tony Smith · Written by Noël Coward

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