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I Thank a Fool (Original title)
Date: 1962 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Robert Stevens

Synopsis: Illustrates the dire dilemmas of an attractive young woman doctor, "guilty" of a mercy killing.

Genre:
Medical drama

Subject:
Euthanasia
Credits (22)
Production Company: Eaton Productions, Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Producer: Anatole de Grunwald, Associate Producer: Roy Parkinson, Assistant Director: David Tomblin, Continuity: Betty Harley, Casting: Irene Howard, Screenplay: Karl Tunberg, Original novel: Audrey Erskine-Lindop, Director of Photography: Harry Waxman, 2nd Unit Photographer: Douglas Adamson, Camera Operator: Jack Lowin, Editor: Frank Clarke, Art Director: Sean Kenny, Costume Designer: Elizabeth Haffenden, Wardrobe: Dora Lloyd, Make-up: Tony Sforzini, Hair: Joan Johnstone, Music composed/directed: Ron Goodwin, Sound: Gordon Daniel, Studio: MGM British Studios
Cast (21)
Susan Hayward (Christine Allison), Peter Finch (Stephen Dane), Diane Cilento (Liane Dane), Cyril Cusack (Captain Ferris), Kieron Moore (Roscoe), Athene Seyler (Aunt Heather), Richard Wattis (Ebblington), Miriam Karlin (Woman in the Black Maria), Laurence Naismith (O'Grady), Clive Morton (The Judge), J.G. Devlin (The Coroner), Richard Leech (Irish Doctor), Brenda De Banzie (Nurse Drew), Yolande Turner (Polly), Edwin Apps (Junior Counsel), Marguerite Brennan (Irish Barmaid), Judith Furse (Wardress), Grace Arnold (2nd Wardress), Peter Sallis (Sleazy Doctor), Joan Benham (Restaurant Manageress), Joan Hickson (Landlady)