Home

I Thank a Fool (1962) [NR]

Featuring:
Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento

Written by:
Audrey Erskine-Lindop
Karl Tunberg

Directed by:
Robert Stevens


Release Date:
September 14, 1962

Original Title:
I Thank a Fool

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
De Grunwald Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: PG  US: NR 

Runtime: 100

Who is Fool? The Woman Who Would Kill for Love? The Wife Who Would Give Her Life for Her Love? Or the Husband Who Would Look "Elsewhere" for Love?

Overview from TheMovieDB

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Overview from Open Movies

Dr Christine Allison's employed by an attorney who'd formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Trailer

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

Rankings and Honors

I Thank a Fool (1962) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.1/10

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Assistant Director:
David Tomblin

Associate Producer:
Roy Parkinson

Casting:
Irene Howard

Costume Design:
Elizabeth Haffenden

Director:
Robert Stevens

Director of Photography:
Harry Waxman

Editor:
Frank Clarke

Hairstylist:
Joan Johnstone

Makeup Artist:
Tony Sforzini

Novel:
Audrey Erskine-Lindop

Original Music Composer:
Ron Goodwin

Producer:
Anatole de Grunwald

Production Design:
Sean Kenny

Production Manager:
Basil Somner

Set Decoration:
Pamela Cornell

Set Dresser:
Pamela Cornell

Writer:
Karl Tunberg

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.