Crucible of Terror (1971) on Netflix
Art dealer John Davies stages a show of Victor Clare's sculpture, unseen since the war. Davies and Clare's son Michael then travel to Cornwall to ask the artist for more work.
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Plot summary
John Davies, an art dealer short of money, is staging an exhibition of work by Victor Clare, a sculptor who has not been shown since the Second World War. George Brent admires a bronze nude and insists on buying it, though the piece is already sold. Clare's son Michael, an alcoholic who needs cash, takes an interest in the proceeds, and John tells him what his share will be. John and Michael drive to Cornwall, where Clare's house and studio stand above a disused tin mine, to ask the sculptor for more of his work. Their wives, Millie and Jane, follow separately. At the house the two men meet Clare's model, Marcia, and his wife, Dorothy, and Clare begins pressing Millie to pose for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crucible of Terror (1971)
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- Mike Raven believed his performances in Lust for a Vampire and I Monster won him his part, but a colleague had recommended him to Parkinson after seeing him in the documentary Raggae and thinking he looked like a nutty sculptor.
- The National Film Finance Corporation turned down Crucible of Terror, saying it had backed too many other horror films. The money instead came from Glendale Film Productions, the company of Peter Newbrook, an assistant cameraman on Dr Zhivago.
- The budget was allegedly £100,000, part of which was put up by the film's star, Mike Raven, a British disc jockey turned actor, yet the film was not financially successful.
