A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum.

Starring:

Andrew Keir, Arthur Hewlett, Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Erik Kühnau, Gretchen Franklin, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies, Trevor Howard

Genre:

Crime, Horror, Thriller