A Warning to the Curious (1972)

Name: A Warning to the Curious
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Genre: TV Movie, Horror, Drama
Released: 1972-12-24
Duration: 50 min
Cast: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington, John Kearney

TV Movie Horror Drama

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark

Cast: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington, John Kearney

Runtime50 min

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Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.

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A Warning to the Curious is a short film, the second of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas. Written, produced, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story of the same name by M. R. James, first published in the collection A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) and first aired on BBC1 on 24 December 1972. At 50 minutes it is the longest instalment in the series' original run.