The Strange Awakening (U.S. title: Female Fiends) is a 1958 British second feature[2] film directed by Montgomery Tully, starring Lex Barker and Carole Mathews.

[3] It was written by J. McLaren Ross based on the 1946 novel Puzzle for Fiends by Hugh Wheeler (as Patrick Quentin).

Motoring in the South of France, Peter Chance picks up a hitchhiker, and is attacked and left unconscious.

Awaking in a villa with no memory of his identity, he is told by a woman claiming to be his mother that he is the heir to a fortune.

[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A summary of the plot does not do justice to this gripping version of the amnesia theme.