本片由克劳德·惠特姆  执导,邀请演员比尔·贝克比  奥利维娅·德哈维兰  莱斯利-安·唐恩  提摩西·韦斯特  海伦·海丝  出演的恐怖片类型电影，讲述A mathematician and author, Luke Williams, is travelling up to London on a train when he meets a old lady, Lavinia Fullerton, who is also going to London, to Scotland Yard. Lavinia tells Luke that in her small village several people have died. The local police are certain that it was all accidental and are taking no action but Lavinia isn't convinced. In London Luke watches, horrified, as Lavinia is run over in a hit and run and he becomes convinced that she was telling the truth. He travels down to the village and with the aid of a local girl, who is also convinced that the deaths were murder, sets out to solve the mystery.