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September 1964 (USA) moreTagline:
Can a Beautiful Woman Be Enslaved Against Her Will? morePlot:
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Alternate Continental version moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bryant Haliday | ... | The Great Vorelli | |
| William Sylvester | ... | Mark English | |
| Yvonne Romain | ... | Marianne Horn | |
| Sandra Dorne | ... | Magda Gardinas | |
| Karel Stepanek | ... | Dr. Heller | |
| Francis De Wolff | ... | Dr. Keisling | |
| Nora Nicholson | ... | Aunt Eva | |
| Philip Ray | ... | Uncle Walter | |
| Alan Gifford | ... | Bob Garrett | |
| Pamela Law | ... | Woman with Garrett | |
| Heidi Erich | ... | Grace, a showgirl | |
| Anthony Baird | ... | Soldier | |
| Trixie Dallas | ... | Miss Penton | |
| Margaret Durnell | ... | Countess | |
| Ray Landor | ... | Expert Dancer |
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81 minCountry:
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Australia:M | UK:15 (video rating) (1997) | USA:Approved (cut) | Canada:G (Quebec) (2002) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | UK:X (original rating)Fun Stuff
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Like the ventriloquist dummy in the similar segment of Dead of Night (1945), the doll's name is Hugo. moreQuotes:
Bob Garrett: Hey, how'd you know I was still in bed?Mark English: It figures, boy, it figures.
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List: Ventriloquists who have disturbing relationships with their dummiesCan I watch the trailer online?
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The Image DVD of this film includes both the original release and an alternate Continental version. There are the following differences in the film.
(a) the initial opening credits are slightly different. The original print has a separate starring credit for Bryant Haliday "as the Great Vorelli" but the continental print credits William Sylvester above Bryant Halliday (sic). There are also some differences in the production company credits with an "Anglo-Amalgamated" credit missing from the Continental print.
(b) 41m14s to 44m40s
The scene between Haliday and Sandra Dorne in Haliday's dressing room (a fairly important scene in establishing Dorne's character and providing a motive for her later murder) which ends with them going into a side room for some (off-screen) sex is missing from the Continental print. Instead, an entirely new scene has been substituted (16s longer in total) which shows Haliday's stage act once more. In this new scene (which does not appear in the original version and was especially filmed for the Continental print) he invites a woman on stage and hypnotizes her into performing a striptease which continues at length until the woman is topless.
(c) 48m15s
A shot of Dorne turning in her sleep is filmed in an alternate cut in the Continental print to show more of her exposed breast.
(d) 48m54s
In the follow-up shot of Hugo approaching to stab Dorne the Continental print has an alternate take in which you see her exposed breast.
(e) 49m47s to 51m07s
Sylvester has a phone conversation with an American colleague in Berlin. This man is accompanied by a young woman who fiddles with her hair and sits on his bed. In the theatrical print she is wearing a bikini and a see-through negligee. The Continental print is an alternate take in which she (the same actress) is topless.
In my view the original cut is definitely superior because the deletion of the dressing room scene from the Continental print (and its replacement by the gratuitous striptease) makes Dorne's subsequent murder abrupt and seemingly arbitrary - the character had also been hanging around the periphery of the action waiting for an appropriate exposition scene to explain her that, in this version, never comes.