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Overview

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Director:
Don Chaffey
Writers:
Robert Hutton (original story & screenplay)
Frederick Warner (additional scenes & dialogue)
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Release Date:
October 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Horror | Thriller more
Tagline:
Warning: this film is NOT for the squeamish! more
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Turner is good, the film is fair. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Lana Turner ... Carrie Masters
Trevor Howard ... Paul Bellamy
Ralph Bates ... David Masters
Olga Georges-Picot ... Monique Kalfon
Suzan Farmer ... Janie Masters
Mark Weavers ... Young David
Patrick Allen ... Robert Masters
Jennifer Guy ... Waitress
Shelagh Fraser ... Mrs. Banks
Ronald Howard ... Dr. Ross
John Ryan ... Gardener
Catherine Brandon ... Mrs. Deacon
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sheba
The Graveyard
The Terror of Sheba
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Runtime:
USA:95 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | UK:AA (original rating) | Australia:M | Norway:15 | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
England, UK more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Turner is good, the film is fair., 18 November 2000
Author: verna55 from cincinnati, ohio

Also shown under the titles THE GRAVEYARD and THE TERROR OF SHEBA, this Gothic British horror movie stars Lana Turner as a maniacal mother who delights in making life miserable for her spineless son(Ralph Bates) who is slowly, but surly, tiring of his deranged mama and her wicked, wicked ways. With her beautiful face, every hair in place, her fashionable costumes, and her exquisite jewelry, Lana Turner, at age 53, is still the very essence of Hollywood glamour. But this is 1974 we're talking about, and her name didn't have the same sparkling effect on the box-office that it had in say 1947, so the film went mostly unnoticed by the movie-going public. The picture itself is a dreary and rather ghoulish retread of familiar BABY JANE-ish high jinks. But Turner has fun with her looneytunes character, and makes this otherwise derivative little film quite watchable. Lana personally regarded this as her worst performance, but she isn't bad at all. Actually she's quite good. I'm convinced she did more with the role than anybody else could have. In fact, she won the Best Actress Award at Spain's Festival of Horror Movies. I strongly recommend this film to her fans who should find it quite interesting to see Turner playing the kind of merciless, blood-curdling psychobitch that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford played in their Scream Queen days.

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