What starts out as a murder mystery with Richard Burton's character literally having his brains bashed out by an unknown assailant, has turned into a disaster movie by the close, and a pretty top notch one at that.
John Morlar is a former barrister turned novelist who can at the very least foresee death and disaster and, he believes, bring it about. While early on in his life the deaths of a nurse, a schoolmaster and his parents, all of whom have displeased him in one way or another, come about in unusual circumstances, all of them can, and have been, explained away as accidents. However the film leaves plenty of room for ambiguity. Maybe they are accidents, maybe he…