Signpost to Murder (1965)
Directed by George Englund
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this suspenseful thriller, a man is sentenced to ten years in a mental institution for the criminally insane after murdering his wife. In the hospital, the man's doctor slyly tells him about an esoteric law that will allow the patient a new trial if he can escape and stay out of the hospital for two full weeks. Naturally, the patient promptly escapes and ends up staying in the home of a woman whose husband is out of town. She is unhappily married and begins feeling drawn to the fugitive killer. Later the man begins to get suspicious when he discovers a corpse near the house. He trips and tumbles down a flight of stairs. When he regains consciousness, the body has vanished. The police eventually find it, and the woman blames the death on the fugitive. Fortunately, the pressure is too much and the woman finally admits that she and the doctor have been having a passionate affair and that they engineered the whole set up to frame the patient for the death of her husband.
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institution, asylum [mental hospital], claim, corpse, craziness, doctor/nurse, escape, extramarital-affair, false-accusation, frame-up, hidden, husband, killing, lawyer, lover, marital-problems, mental-institution, mental-patient (escaped), mill, murder, police, prison, shelter, trial [courtroom], unconscious, wife, man, woman
