Straight On till Morning (also known as Victim and Dressed for Death) is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Peter Collinson and starring Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, James Bolam, Katya Wyeth and John Clive.

The screenplay concerns a reserved young woman who finds herself attracted to a handsome stranger, unaware of his psychotic tendencies.

Brenda is a plain young woman, who lives at home with her mother in Liverpool and enjoys writing fairy tales for children.

From the sledgehammer irony of its opening in which a jungle of TV aerials is juxtaposed with Brenda's reading of a fairy story, to her final realisation that the Prince Charming of her dreams is a homicidal maniac, the film limps along like some nightmarish cross-breeding of A Taste of Honey [1961] and The Penthouse [1967].

There are even a few desultory echos of Peeping Tom [1960] (Peter's tapes of his victims) thrown in to give weight to the outrageous characterisations.

Brenda, so naive that she fully expects to meet her dream lover on every corner, is a hard enough character to swallow, but the script finally abandons all claims to verisimilitude with the introduction of Peter, the beautiful and generous psychotic who lives in the complete isolation of a palatial mews house with the wealth of various murdered girlfriends stuffed in his kitchen drawer.

From this point on practically nothing in the plot can be taken seriously, and it is constructed with a pretentious fragmentation whose only function seems to be to disguise the series of absurd coincidences on which the story depends.

Rita Tushingham is the naive Liverpudlian who hooks up with gigolo Shane Briant, falls pregnant and discovers her dream lover is a serial killer.

Directed by Peter Collinson in a similar vein to his other woman-in-terror flick Fright [1971], this is an effectively cold-hearted piece that goes for the easy shock.