Journey to the Unknown (film)

Journey to the Unknown is a 1970 British-American made-for-television thriller film featuring two episodes derived from the 1968–1969 anthology television series of the same name starring Vera Miles and Patty Duke, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Don Chaffey. The film contains the following episodes:

• "Matakitas is Coming" (original broadcast: November 28, 1968 on ABC)
• "The Last Visitor" (original broadcast: January 2, 1969 on ABC)

Joan Crawford is featured as hostess in a dark library setting who provides a short narration and introduces the two episodes.

Plot

"Matakitas is Coming"

• Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
• Written by: Robert Heverley
• Cast: Vera Miles (June Wiley), Leon Lissek (Andros Matakitas), Gay Hamilton (Sylvia Ann), Lyn Pinkney (Tracy), Dermot Walsh (Ken), John Junkin (Robert)

June Wiley is a criminologist doing research on a dead 1920s mad serial killer named Andros Matakitas who finds herself alone and trapped inside a deserted library where, 41 years earlier, he killed the librarian.^[1]

"The Last Visitor"

• Director: Don Chaffey
• Written by: Alfred Shaughnessy
• Cast: Patty Duke (Barbara King), Kay Walsh (Mrs. Walker), Geoffrey Bayldon (Mr. Plimmer), Joan Newell (Mrs. Plimmer), Blake Butler (Butler), John Bailey (Mitchell), Michael Craze (Fred), Sally James (Peggy)

A young woman on holiday at a seaside resort hotel is stalked by a mysterious prowler which Mrs. Walker (Kay Walsh), the proprietress of the resort, informs her is her estranged, psychotic husband.^[2]

References

External links

• Journey to the Unknown at IMDb
• Journey to the Unknown at AllMovie