| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (75 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
Nurse Betsy Conwell takes up a position on the West Indies island of St Sebastian for plantation owner Paul Holland, tending Holland̕s wife Jessica whose mind has been burnt out by a tropical disease. But Betsy comes to fall in love with the melancholy Paul and seeks to help him by finding a cure for Jessica. Believing that the native witch doctors might be able to help, she one night leads Jessica through the plantations to a voodoo ritual. But afterwards the natives become obsessed with and try to lead Jessica to them by voodoo. And Betsy comes to realize that Jessica̕s condition might not be a disease, but instead actually caused by voodoo. -- LA |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast May 19, 2008. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
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Based on an original story by Inez Wallace |
| Credits |
Director: Jacques Tourneur; producer: Val Lewton; writer: Curt Siodmak |
| Performer |
Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway |
| Notes |
DVD |
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Originally released: RKO Pictures, 1953 |
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Rated: PG |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Genre/Form |
Horror films
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Feature films
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| Author |
Tourneur, Jacques
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