
22 Nov 1974

The Tempter
A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Rosemary
Gordon Comstock
Ravelston
Erskine
Julia Comstock
Hermione
Mrs. Wisbeach
Mrs Meakin
McKechnie
Paul Doring
Ravenscroft Waiter
Dora
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