October 1961
Pit of Darkness is a 1961 British thriller film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Franklyn and Moira Redmond. The film is an amnesia thriller dealing with a man's attempts to piece together a sequence of strange events in which he seems to have been involved during the time of which he has no memory, based on the novel To Dusty Death by Hugh McCutcheon.
Storyline
Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious on an old deserted bomb site. After regaining consciousness, he realizes that he has no recollection of the previous three weeks. Then he discovers that a private detective hired by his wife has been found murdered and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house has been cleverly opened and the contents are missing. So, with the help of his wife, he sets out to uncover the truth.