This was a joint venture between companies from Britain, the US and Canada and it beggars belief that three sets of producers thought this was worth their time and money. The film is not in the least bit scary just horrifically dull with terrible acting and a laughable monster - we're talking Ed Wood standard here. The film has probably the most bathetic closing line in the history of cinema. The married couple at the centre of the story are recovering from their ordeal on a cruise ship but can find nothing better to talk about than resolving minor plot details so that the last line of the film is " There was no telegram, darling, he spoke to the hotel himself from a telephone booth". Well, thanks for clearing that up !
Robert Hutton plays an American physicist Dr Lutens whose wife Trudy is threatened by a family curse involving a man with a vulture whose grave has been disturbed. Could the sinister Professor Koniglich ( Akim Tamiroff ) with the dodgy foreign accent have anything to do with it ?
Diane Clare ( as Trudy Lutens )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
The film is a textbook example of how to waste an attractive actress
Annette Carrell ( as Ellen West )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Annette was a German born actress who moved to Britain in the late fifties and worked mainly on TV often in harsh or villainous roles. She died in 1967 aged 38.
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