''Something to Hide'' (in the U.S. also reissued as ''Shattered''), is a 1972 British

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, written and directed by

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, based on a 1963 novel by

Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR ( 22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–1945), but perhaps known be ...

. The film stars

Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia at the age of ten and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudevi ...

Shelley Winters Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for ''The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film), The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959) and ' ...

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, Linda Hayden and

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. Finch plays a man harassed by his shrewish wife (Winters) who, after picking up a pregnant teenage hitchhiker (Hayden), is driven to murder and madness. The film was not released commercially in the USA until 1976.Release information for ''Something to Hide''
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Cast

as Harry Field *

as Gabriella *

as Blagdon *

as Sergeant Tom Winnington * Linda Hayden as Lorelei *

Harold Goldblatt Harold Goldblatt (born Israel Goldblatt, 5 July 1899 – 22 March 1982) was a British actor, theatre director and theatre producer, born in Manchester, but mostly raised in Belfast. Goldblatt was born in Manchester, England, to Russian Jewish p ...

as Dibbick *

Rosemarie Dunham Rosemarie Dunham (born Rosemarie Tomlinson; 13 December 1924 – 5 December 2016) was a British actress. She is sometimes credited as Rosemary Dunham. Early life Dunham was born in Leuchars, Fife, the daughter of Willis Tomlinson, an Englis ...

as Elsie * Helen Fraser as Miss Bunyan * Jack Shepherd as Joe Pepper *

Graham Crowden Clement Graham Crowden (30 November 1922 – 19 October 2010) was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dramas and films, often playing eccentric scientist, teacher and doctor characters. Early life C ...

as Lay Preacher

References

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