Journey to the Unknown (film)

Journey to the Unknown is a 1973 British-American made-for-television thriller film featuring two episodes derived from the 1968–1969 anthology television series of the same name starring Vera Miles and Patty Duke, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Don Chaffey. The film contains the following episodes:

• "Matakitas is Coming" (original broadcast: November 28, 1968 on ABC)
• "The Last Visitor" (original broadcast: January 2, 1969 on ABC)

Joan Crawford is featured as hostess in a dark library setting who provides a short narration and introduces the two episodes.

A criminologist doing research on a dead 1920s mad serial killer named Matakitas finds herself alone and trapped inside a deserted library where, 41 years earlier, he killed the librarian.^[1]

Cast

• Vera Miles as June Wiley
• Leon Lissek as Andros Matakitas
• Gay Hamilton as Sylvia Ann
• Lyn Pinkney as Tracy
• Dermot Walsh as Ken
• John Junkin as Robert

A young woman on holiday at a seaside resort hotel is stalked by a mysterious prowler which Mrs. Walker, the proprietress of the resort, informs her is her estranged, psychotic husband.^[2]

Cast

• Patty Duke as Barbara King
• Kay Walsh as Mrs. Walker
• Geoffrey Bayldon as Mr. Plimmer
• Joan Newell as Mrs. Plimmer
• Blake Butler as Butler
• John Bailey as Mitchell
• Michael Craze as Fred
• Sally James as Peggy

• Journey to the Unknown at IMDb
• Journey to the Unknown at AllMovie