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I Start Counting is a 1970 British coming-of-age drama thriller film directed by David Greene and starring Jenny Agutter and Bryan Marshall. Its plot follows a teenaged girl who comes to suspect that her adult foster brother is a serial killer. It was based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Audrey Erskine Lindop.

I Start Counting
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Directed by	David Greene
Screenplay by	Richard Harris
Based on	I Start Counting by Audrey Erskine Lindop
Produced by	David Greene Stanley R. Jaffe
Starring	Jenny Agutter Bryan Marshall Simon Ward
Cinematography	Alex Thomson
Edited by	Keith Palmer
Music by	Basil Kirchin
Production company	Triumvirate Films
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	27 November 1970
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The film was moderately controversial because of Agutter's squeaky-clean image and youth (16, playing a 14-year-old), when coupled with the film's sexual content.[1] It also included Simon Ward's first major film role.

Plot

Wynne Kinch (Agutter), an adopted 14-year-old girl, has a crush on her 32-year-old stepbrother, George (Bryan Marshall). While spying on George in the bathroom, Wynne notices he has several scratches on his back, and finds a jumper she made for him thrown in the rubbish, with blood on it; this leads her to suspect him of being the serial killer of several local teenage girls, who is still at large. Despite this belief, Wynne continues to have romantic sexual fantasies about George, and dreams of marrying him when she comes of legal age.

Throughout the film, she regularly visits the house she previously lived in with her family.

Later on, Wynne hides in George's minibus, thinking she may catch him in the act of murder, but instead discovers he is having an affair with a mentally fragile woman (Lana Morris), whose blood was on the discarded jumper after she had slashed her wrists in a suicide attempt.

Wynne's best friend Corinne (Clare Sutcliffe) teases her about her crush on George and, when the family goes out on a picnic, Corinne flirts with him; he gets angry at her for acting like a "pathetic little mini-tart", and pins her down roughly on the ground. Corinne runs off, and later telephones Wynne to tell her she will stay out all night with an unnamed boy who, she says, they both know. Wynne worries about her friend, goes searching for her at her former home, and finds Corinne's dead body. She then comes across the real murderer; a bus conductor whom Wynne and Corinne see regularly on their journey when they go on the bus and was the man who Corinne was out with. He chases Wynne and accidentally pushes her into the river nearby. While helping her out, he seems to break down in distress, at which point the police arrive.

The film ends with Wynne and George watching their old house being demolished.

Cast

Production

Filming

The film was shot at Bray Studios in Berkshire and on location around Bracknell. The sets were designed by the art director Brian Eatwell.

Music

The theme song, also titled "I Start Counting", was sung by Lindsey Moore.

Casting

Young Phil Collins makes a little appearance as an ice cream vendor.

References

External links

• I Start Counting at IMDb
• online review

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[de] Die Schritte des Mörders

Die Schritte des Mörders ist ein britischer Thriller aus dem Jahre 1969. Die Romanvorlage stammt von Audrey Erskine-Lindop.

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- [en] I Start Counting

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