The Cold Embrace

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Adapted by Max Pappenheim and Philip Franks 

Directed by Max Pappenheim 

Starring Sophie Ward, Philip Franks and John Wark

A young lover’s vows come back to haunt him in this chilling adaptation of Mary Braddon’s timeless short story A Cold Embrace. Sophie Ward (The Mirror Crack’d, A Very British Scandal) narrates the tale of a young artist who can’t escape the clutches of the lover he betrayed.

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