123 The Maze ( 1953 )

This  is  an  atmospheric  take  on  the  old  mad  relative  in  the  tower  story . The  exposition  doesn't  answer  every  question  raised  but  it's  a  good  film  with  a  plucky  heroine  at  the  centre.The  film  was  released  in  3D.

Kitty  Murray  is  due  to  be  married  to  Gerald  MacTeam  ( Richard  Carlson ), heir  to  a  baronetcy. Just  before  the  wedding , Gerald  is  called  to  the  gloomy  family  castle on  his  uncle's  death  and  she  hears  no  more  from  him  until  a  cryptic  letter some  months  later. Kitty  and  her  reluctant  aunt  Edith  ( Katherine  Emery )  come  to  the  castle  and  find  him  prematurely  aged  and  hostile  to  their  presence. Kitty  determines  to  find  out  why.

Kitty  (  Veronica  Hurst )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Veronica  was  an  English  actress  born  to  Malta. She  was  loaned  out  to  Allied  Artists  for  this  film. For  no  obvious  reason,  stardom  eluded  her and  she  returned  to  Britain  acting  mainly  in  television  including  Coronation  Street  and  Dixon  of  Dock  Green . She  seems  to  have  quit  acting  in  the  mid-seventies. She  is  now  85.

Hillary  Brooke  ( as  Peggy  Bond )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Hillary  was  originally  Beatrce  Pearson  from  New  York  although  she  specialised  in  playing  Englishwomen,  She  was  a  supporting  player  in  films  in  the  forties  but  a  successful  TV  actress  in  the  fifties  with  regular  roles  in  The  Abbott  and  Costello  Show  and  My  Little  Margie . She  retired  in  the  early  sixties  and  died  from  a  blood  clot  in  1999  aged  85.