**SPOILERS** Having survived a fiery car crash just 40 miles outside of London city limits Chris Smith, Robert Webber, a name given to him by his physician Dr. Keller, Anthony Newlands, has completely lost his memory of everything about himself before his accident. Chris is told by Dr. Keller that his medical bills are being paid for in full by some unknown benefactor as well as a luxury penthouse apartment rented for him in a London suburb.
Acting a bit aloof and not at all interested in who this mystery man, who taking care of all his bills, is Chris checks into his already paid for pad and expects to take it easy until his memory returns. It's not that long that Chris starts to hear noises in the next apartment of a couple fighting with each other. Chris running to see what happened he finds a bloody knife and running shower in the empty apartment next door.
Therse spats of the fathom couple go on for a couple of nights where Chris starts to believe that he in fact is, or is going, insane. With only a torn out photo of a woman, from a fashion magazine, found on him after his accident Chris checks out all the fashion photographers in town to who this woman is. Finding out from photographer Marcus Allen, Peter Woodthrope, that the mystery woman is Denise James, Leli Godoni, who in fact modeled for him and was murdered some six months ago about the time that Chris had his near-fatal accident! What Chris also finds out from Allan is that Denise was murdered in the same building, in fact on the same floor, that he's staying in now!
Feeling that he's somehow being set up-in a possible murder-by someone behind the scenes Chris goes to see private dick Hammings, Maurice Denham, to get to the bottom of all these weird happenings. Hammings in the end uncovers just what's behind all these strange events which, as it turned out, Chris was subconsciously wise to.
Chris in fact does later meet Denise, the woman of his dreams or hallucinations, who turned out to be the person paying his bills! Denise was married to the man Mr. James, John Arnatt, driving the car that Chris was in when he drove it off the road and thus killing himself.
****SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON**** It also turns out that Denise is only interested in Chris for reasons other then his health in fact she, and her secret associate, are planning to frame him in a murder that they'll soon commit! The shower murder of Denise's lover and accomplice's wife, Irene Richardson!
The movie "Hysteria" gets very muddled and confusing at the halfway point where we see Chris recalling a trip he had, before his car accident, in France. Getting ripped off by a local hooker,Sue Lloyd, at a French cat-house was bad enough but when her boyfriend, Kiwi Kingston, showed up Chris almost ended up breaking his neck, jumping out of a second floor window, getting away.
With no money or passport Chris ends up being picked up, by forcing his way into her car, by this English tourist Sandra Doizer who for some strange reason, it couldn't have been his bubbling personality, falls in love with the rude and pushy Chris. Snuck out of France and across the English Channel in the trunk of her Bently Chris shows his gratitude for the star-struck Sandra by leaving her the first chance available to him. It's then that Chris was picked up by Mr. James and that's when all his troubles in the movie began.
Very over-plotted but at the same time predictable ending with Chris, together with private dick Hammings, breaking this very strange murder case wide open. But by them it seemed like that nobody, both on the screen and in the audience, was all that interested, already knowing who the killer or killers were, anyway.
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