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Release Date:
19 January 1964 (USA)
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Tagline:
HER HUSBAND...HER ROOM... ......AND ANOTHER WOMAN
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Plot:
After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
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Diane Baker Ruined The Film
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| Paul Tanner | .... | musician: electro-theremin (uncredited) |
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Additional Details
Runtime:
93 min
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
The sound effect for the heads being chopped off was the prop man wielding an ax and cutting a watermelon in half.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Opening sequence includes close-up of front page newspaper story announcing that Lucy has been declared insane. But photo used to illustrate story shows character wearing earrings that weren't purchased until years later, after her release.
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Quotes:
Lucy Harbin:
[
to Michael] You sit down here with Carrol because I wouldn't want her to think I was taking her father away from her.
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Soundtrack:
There Goes That Song
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Because she was a mega-star, Joan Crawford gets a lot of "press" even in this movie, but I wasn't her who decided whether I liked this film or not. She was okay, but better in another 1960s film, the one with her arch-rival Bette Davis. The actress who affected me in this movie the most was Diane Baker and she just about ruined the film, as far as I was concerned.
This film gets a little too melodramatic at times but Baker's character really gets carried away and is downright annoying as hell. She plays "Carol Harbin." Her hysterics were so overdone it was ridiculous to watch.
As a suspense film, it's okay, but after viewing the surprise ending, I wouldn't watch the movie again. A lot of people thought there was very little in the way of surprise in figuring out the murderer, but I don't think it was as obvious as stated by some. Nonetheless, the whole thing is so-so at best. It wasn't a memorable film, good or bad.