Watch: The Full Treatment 1960 123movies, Full Movie Online – High-strung race car driver Alan Colby is trying to recover from a serious head injury. Alan and his lovely new wife Denise go on vacation to the South of France for some much needed rest and relaxation. But Alan is having trouble resisting his more violent impulses. Suave local psychiatrist David Prade offers to help Alan out..
Plot: Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D’Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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He Needs Help.
Val Guest directed this psychological suspense yarn about a race car driver(played by Ronald Lewis) who is having huge stress issues after nearly cracking up in a car race. He takes his wife(played by Diane Cilento) on a trip to the South of France for a vacation, but is still plagued by stress and other psychological issues, so agrees to see a psychiatrist(played by Claude Dauphin) but complications ensue, as things(of course) are not all that they seem. Misfired attempt at suspense has a good cast but is fatally overlong and far too talky, with nothing in the story justifying this over-length, as film becomes quite tedious.
unrealized potential but still interesting
“Stop Me Before I Kill” or “The Full Treatment” is a 1960 film with a screenplay by Val Guest, who also directed.The story concerns a famous race car driver, Alan Colby (Ronald Lewis), who was involved in a terrible car crash with his wife Denise (Diane Cilento). He is unable to race, and he and Denise go to the south of France on vacation.
Alan goes through swift mood shifts – the slightest word can set off his temper. And he keeps being tempted to strangle his wife – in fact, he nearly does a couple of times.
This, of course, is where one has to suspend belief because why the heck would she stay with someone who has attempted to strangle her and whose temper flares at the drop of a hat? I understand women in abusive situations, but I don’t know, my husband trying to kill me takes it to a new level.
A psychiatrist they meet, Dr. David Prade (Claude Dauphin) offers to help. Alan is hesitant, but once back in London, where Prade has also returned, he agrees. At the end of the treatment, he feels that he is cured. He is able to get back on the racing track and has no temptation to hurt Denise.
Right before he is to leave for a race, Alan wakes up and finds that Denise is not there. In fact, all the evidence points to the fact that she has been murdered.
This was a very good story that suffered from an unbalanced script. The film went on too long, and the psychiatric scenes were endless. Diane Cilento is a beautiful and heartfelt Denise, Claude Dauphin is likable, and Ronald Lewis for me lacked subtlety in a difficult role. A good-looking man, in the beginning of the film, he reminded me of David Hasselhoff; fortunately, the resemblance faded somewhat.
Sadly Ronald Lewis committed suicide in 1982, bankrupt and his career in the doldrums.
In other hands and a bigger budget, this could have been an excellent film. However it’s worth seeing for the story.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 48 min (108 min), 1 hr 33 min (93 min) (cut) (USA), 1 hr 47 min (107 min) (Screen Gems print) (USA), 1 hr 48 min (108 min) (DVD) (USA)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director Val Guest
Writer Ronald Scott Thorn, Val Guest
Actors Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis
Country United Kingdom
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Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process MegaScope
Printed Film Format 35 mm