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The film was shot on a relatively modest budget of $ 2 million. As a money saving device it was mostly shot in a shed on the
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version of Fraser's sudden death is replayed – but the veiled female assailant turns out to be Anne, not
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Lawrence Hayes (Smith). MP and war profiteer
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