The title suggests Robert Aldrich but it's actually a fairy tale set at Christmas in the 1920s resembling Hansel & Gretel crossed with 'Psycho' and 'The Amazing Mr Blunden' (whose director is actually in the cast), with Shelly Winters as as crazy old woman keeping a mummified corpse in her bedroom and preying on a pair of orphans one of whom is Oliver Twist himself.
American-International imported an American director and star to blighty, but while it includes a few of the fanciful touches one expects from Curtis Harrington - like a teddy bear being guillotined - his direction is overall rather perfunctory.
The cast includes Michael Gothard resembling Klaus Kinski as a very saturnine butler, and also boasts a most unlikely additional dialogue credit for Gavin Lambert.
American-International imported an American director and star to blighty, but while it includes a few of the fanciful touches one expects from Curtis Harrington - like a teddy bear being guillotined - his direction is overall rather perfunctory.
The cast includes Michael Gothard resembling Klaus Kinski as a very saturnine butler, and also boasts a most unlikely additional dialogue credit for Gavin Lambert.