2014.04.07


The Leech Woman (1960) DVD5 - Classic Sci-fi Ultimate Collection [DDR]

CAST:-
Coleen Gray... June Talbot
Grant Williams... Neil Foster
Phillip Terry... Dr. Paul Talbot
Gloria Talbott ... Sally
John Van Dreelen... Bertram Garvay
Estelle Hemsley... Old Malla
Kim Hamilton ... Young Malla
Arthur Batanides... Jerry

Directed by Edward Dein
Produced by John Greshenson
Written by Ben Pivar
Music by Irving Gertz
Running time 77 min.



SYNOPSIS:- THe Leech Woman (1960)
A mysterious old woman named Malla (Estelle Hemsley) who claims to have been brought to America 140 years ago by Arab slavers approaches endocrinologist Dr. Paul Talbot (Phillip Terry) and promises to reveal to him the secret of eternal youth.

Following her back to Africa, he and his aging, unhappy wife June (Coleen Gray) witness a secret ceremony of the Nando tribe that utilizes orchid pollen and a male victim's pineal gland secretions extracted from the back of the neck via a special ring to temporarily transform Malla once more into a young and beautiful girl (Kim Hamilton).

After discovering her conniving husband only brought her along as a test subject, June steals the ring and escapes back to the United States alone where, pretending to be her own 'niece' Terry Hart, she proceeds to keep herself young by killing men for their pineal extract.

She quickly becomes enamored with her lawyer Neil Foster (Grant Williams), a man half her actual age, and kills his jealous fiancee Sally (Gloria Talbott), both to maintain her youthful appearance and to eliminate the competition.

When the cops come to investigate the murders, however, June discovers she is aging rapidly due to using female pineal secretions instead of male and kills herself by leaping from a window.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 77 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 77