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Never trust a beautiful woman…

THE PLOT

Andre is on his rounds in France during the 1700s when his eye gets caught by a beautiful young woman. He stops to talk to her and when she doesn’t speak or refuses to speak, he feels even more intrigued. Eventually he travels to a large castle where he comes across the Baron Van Leppe. The Baron denies there is a woman living there, though Andre is sure she must be. He finds a painting of the woman, only to learn she died two decades before. Is Andre seeing a ghost or is there something else going on?

FUN TRIVIA

Roger Corman went on to direct and produce a number of horror movie gems following this one while legendary actor Boris Karloff who portrayed the Baron, died just six years later. Also look for a young Jack Nicholson as Andre.

THOUGHTS/OPINIONS

This movie suffers quite a bit from age, which is strange considering that other Corman films don’t have the same problem. There’s also an issue with pacing in that everything seems really slow. The characters will look at each other and you could swear minutes had passed since they last spoke. I know a lot of people really love this movie or at least like it, but I couldn’t focus on it. It seemed to just plod along until it finally ended without anything really ever happening. Just as a minor complaint, Nicholson sounds exactly the same here as he does in every other movie he ever did, which makes it hard for me to buy him as a French soldier.

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