This 1973 TV movie is directed by Curtis Harrington and comes from a teleplay by famed horror writer Robert Bloch. Starring Meredith Baxter, David Hedison and Gale Sondergaard, it also has a nice cameo right at the start from Kent Smith, who starred in the earlier Cat People movies!
One completely random bit of supposed trivia regarding the film is that the director wanted to make Gale Sondergaard’s shopkeeper a lesbian, but was denied by the film company…so he relented, but added a midget prostitute instead as a form of protest against the stuck up higher ups!
A nicer piece of trivia is that after filming had finished, Sondergaard was called back to do reshoots and close-ups, or at least that’s what they told her. Instead, Charlton Heston snuck in with an Oscar which he presented to her to replace a plaque that she had one for an earlier movie, Anthony Adverse (1936)!
Anyway, that’s enough random trivia for now! On with the show!
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I like that they found someway to stick it to the stuck up producers!
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