Réalisation:
Donald WolfeScénario:
Donald WolfePhotographie:
John Arthur MorrillMusique:
Stu PhillipsActeurs·trices:
Miriam Hopkins, Gale Sondergaard, David Garfield, Virginia Wing, Lester Matthews, Florence Lake, Joe Besser, Minta Durfee, Katina Garner (plus)Résumés(1)
Faded Hollywood star Katharine Packard (Miriam Hopkins) lives a lonely, secluded life in a sprawling mansion, battling the bottle and struggling to hold on to her eroding sanity. After a drunken reverie leads to a broken leg, her doctor advertises for a live-in nurse to help care for the embittered former actress. An intense, sarcastic young man named Vic (John Garfield, Jr.) arrives to claim the assignment, and is hired despite the concerns of Ms. Packard's secretary (Gale Sondergaard). She's right to suspect the worst, for not only is Vic lying about his medical credentials, he's also a psychopathic killer who preys exclusively on older women. He charms his way into Katharine's good graces, seduces the comely young cook (Virginia Wing) and keeps a secret leather kit full of syringes, butcher knives and scalpels hidden in his room. Katharine thinks she's falling in love and soon Vic is in full control of the household, charging expensive outfits for himself and bringing drug dealers and freaks back for midnight parties. When the elderly screen legend realizes that her young gigolo is dangerous, she mysteriously disappears, but Vic tells the household staff that Katharine is simply isolating herself in her room and doesn't want to be disturbed by anyone but him. As the domestic help start to get wise, they are picked off one by one by this remorseless predator. (Vinegar Syndrome)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Miriam Hopkins
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
L'Héritière (1949)
Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde (1931)
Haute pègre (1932)
Gale Sondergaard
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Le Signe de Zorro (1940)
Anna et le roi de Siam (1946)
Anthony Adverse, marchand d'esclaves (1936)
David Garfield
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
L'Opération diabolique (1966)
Le Plongeon (1968)
Le Voyage fantastique de Sinbad (1973)
Virginia Wing
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
La Conquête de l'Ouest (1976) (série)
Tuez Charley Varrick ! (1973)
Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again (1982)
Lester Matthews
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
The Name of the Game (1968) (série)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
L'Aigle des mers (1940)
Florence Lake
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Quality Street (1937)
Romance (1930)
Joe Besser
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
The Errand Boy (1961)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Le Milliardaire (1960)
Minta Durfee
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Elle et lui (1957)
Un monde fou fou fou fou (1963)
La Blonde explosive (1957)
Katina Garner
Meilleurs films :
Wacko (1982)
La Nuit d'Halloween (1988)
Le Mystère de la pyramide (1986)
Charles G. Martin
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Les Proies (1971)
Le Dernier des géants (1976)
Riza Royce
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
L'Esclave libre (1957)
Une étoile est née (1954)
L'Homme au masque de cire (1953)
Jason Johnson
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Les Trois Visages d'Eve (1957)
Je veux vivre ! (1958)
Le Brigand bien-aimé (1957)
Leoda Richards
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Témoin à charge (1957)
La Tour infernale (1974)
La Mélodie du bonheur (1965)