After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.
J. Farrell MacDonald
- Sheriff
- (as J. Farrel McDonald)
Jack Carr
- The Bus Driver
- (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon
- Old Woman in Bus
- (uncredited)
- …
Marjorie Manners
- Blonde Girl
- (uncredited)
Frank Mills
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Twinkle Watts
- Young Girl
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJeanne Gail's debut.
- GoofsThe opening narration states that Judge Elijah Webster "was responsible for condemning eighteen women to their fiery death," but Dr Adams (John Loder) later refers to Webster's victims as "those fifteen women he condemned."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Vampira Show: Woman Who Came Back (1955)
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A nifty, Poverty Row Lewtonian thriller!
THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK stars Nancy Kelly (THE BAD SEED) as Lorna Webster, direct descendent of the 17th Century magistrate responsible for "sending eighteen women to their fiery deaths," in the infamous Massachusetts town of Eben Rock. Coming back by bus, Lorna shares her seat with a black-veiled hag (THE OLD DARK HOUSE's Elspeth Dudgeon) who claims to be Jezebel Trister, Judge Elijah Webster's most famous victim. When the bus plunges into Shadow Lake, Lorna is the sole survivor - with the body of the strange woman nowhere to be found. So begins a series of strange encounters that threaten to plunge modern Eben Rock back into the dark ages.
THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK is a neat little Lewtonian drama about Old Country superstitions festering in the New World. Eben Rock is a town unable to rest comfortably on its own foundations (the Webster family tree hangs heavy with the kind of scoundrels that found nations), making less a story about the supernatural than of how superstition drives the sensitive and marginal away from reason and true faith (embodied here by the friendship between John Loder's town doctor and Otto Kruger's sage minister).
Although THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK seems influenced by the psychological horror films being produced by Val Lewton at RKO around the same time, the film also anticipates a key bit of business in the later CARNIVAL OF SOULS (the survivor of an aquatic auto accident later coming to doubt her sanity). Highly recommended.
THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK is a neat little Lewtonian drama about Old Country superstitions festering in the New World. Eben Rock is a town unable to rest comfortably on its own foundations (the Webster family tree hangs heavy with the kind of scoundrels that found nations), making less a story about the supernatural than of how superstition drives the sensitive and marginal away from reason and true faith (embodied here by the friendship between John Loder's town doctor and Otto Kruger's sage minister).
Although THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK seems influenced by the psychological horror films being produced by Val Lewton at RKO around the same time, the film also anticipates a key bit of business in the later CARNIVAL OF SOULS (the survivor of an aquatic auto accident later coming to doubt her sanity). Highly recommended.
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- Feb 11, 2000
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- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
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