Straight On Till Morning

“She wished the night would never end... How could she know the morning would never come?”

Brenda Thompson (Rita Tushingham) is a shy, withdrawn young woman who wants one thing, a man who will love her and take her out of her life. Then she meets Peter Clive (Shane Briant), handsome and attentive, and she is sure he is the one. Peter Collinson shoots it for Hammer in the grain and gloom of early-seventies Britain, and keeps the camera close enough to make the quiet moments uneasy.