Die Sister, Die! (1972)

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.

Director:

Randall Hood

Writers:

William Hersey (story), Tony Sawyer

Stars:

Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower

Cast

Cast overview:
Jack Ging	...	Edward Price
Edith Atwater	...	Amanda Price
Antoinette Bower	...	Esther Harper
Kent Smith	...	Dr. Thorne
Robert Emhardt	...	James Lendon Price
Bert Santos	...	(as Burt Santos)
Rita Conde	...	Mrs. Gonzalez
Jack Lester
Roger Hampton
Peg Shirley	...	Nell Price
Lidia Kristen	...	(as Lidia Kristin)
Cletus Young
Bradley Thrush

Storyline

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.

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Plot Keywords:

nurse | falling from a rooftop | wrist cutting | sister sister relationship | invalid | 

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Taglines:

Go ahead and SCREAM AMANDA - it can't help you now!

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Genres:

Thriller

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

December 1978 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Companion

Company Credits

Production Co:

Project Blue

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min 82 min (video)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Esther: Miss Price, you must be very tired. Why don't you take a pill and have a really good night's rest?
Amanda: Ah, yes! The capsule. Now that's a fair exchange. I offer you escape, you offer me oblivion. Goodnight, Esther. I can manage.

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Connections

Featured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 4: Cooled by Refrigeration (2009)

User Reviews

Tolerably Tolerable

A registered nurse named Esther (Antoinette Bower) is summoned to an eerie Gothic mansion and feels a lurking menace in the place, as if it bears a terrible secret. When she meets Edward (Jack Ging), he tells her that he wants to hire her to care for his difficult, ailing sister Amanda (Edith Atwater). She does not realize his true intent.

Produced and directed by Randall Hood, who has done little else in his career. Jack Ging gets top billing in this film, with his name prominently on the cover of the DVD. Who is Jack Ging? A television actor, who also appeared in a couple early 1970s Clint Eastwood films.

The Treasure Box Collection features the film in full frame with decent video quality for the time period. No extra measure was given to spruce up the picture, and there are no features at all (not even subtitles), but for watching the film it works fine. (The film is also only 84 minutes, not the 88 that the box says.) As far as horror films go, this one is pretty light. More like a slightly tense thriller, as there is not much blood and an extremely low body count. Horror films can be successful on atmosphere rather than gore, certainly, but this one relies very heavily on an atmosphere I do not know if it can deliver.