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.Nissen p.202

Plot

An ageing and reclusive former film star, who lives in a mansion with a small staff of housekeepers, hires a disturbed young man as her personal nurse. At the same time a serial killer has been murdering and dismembering women in the

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Cast

* Miriam Hopkins as Katharine Packard * David Garfield as Vic Valance (as John David Garfield) *

as Leslie * Florence Lake as Mildred * Virginia Wing as Greta * Lester Matthews as Ira Jaffee * Riza Royce as Mrs. Jaffee * Joe Besser as Bus Driver * Charles Martin as Doctor * Jason Johnson as Josef *

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as TV Announcer * Minta Durfee as Guest

References

Bibliography

* Axel Nissen. ''Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties''. McFarland, 2007.

External links

* 1970 films 1970s horror thriller films 1970 horror films American horror thriller films Films scored by Stu Phillips 1970s English-language films 1970s American films {{1970s-thriller-film-stub