The Man Who Finally Died

3/4/2025

A hearse passes a German hotel and next thing “Newman” (Stanley Baker) arrives rather bemused. Why? Well that’s because it was apparently the funeral of his dad, but he thought he had died twenty years ago. Events only become more curious when he then discovers that dad “Deutsch” had a young wife “Lisa” (Mai Zetterling) who lives in a sprawling mansion with “Martha” (Barbara Everest) who remembers him as a child. Something is definitely amiss, and when it transpires that they are both living as guests of local and rather creepy doctor “von Brecht” (Peter Cushing) who runs a local camp for displaced persons after the war, well he becomes even more suspicious. Meantime, local policeman “Hofmeister” (Eric Portman) is sniffing around with his henchman (Nigel Green) as is the enigmatic insuranc