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The Leech Woman


Date: 1960
Type: Sci-Fi / Drama
Rating: 2 Stars 2/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Edward Dein
Producer:
Comment/Synopsis
A doctor looking for a way of making people young again is approached by an African woman who says she has the way of acheiving this back in Africa. He takes his wife there to use her as an experiment but she rebels and has him killed so she can regain her youth, but there is a price for her youth. The first half has the typical African backdrop of the period with stock African footage and sterotypes whilst the second half attempts to address why need and want to stay young and men do not. This is one of Coleen Gray's better performances though Gloria Talbott has a limited role that under used her talents.
Actors
Coleen GrayColeen Gray
Grant WilliamsGrant Williams
Phillip Terry
Gloria TalbottGloria Talbott
John Van Dreelen
Estelle Hemsley
Kim Hamilton
Arthur Batanides

Oscars
None
Production
Universal International Pictures