Out of the blue, he sees a gorgeous woman that shows him a spring. In 1806, the French Lieutenant Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) is lost from his regiment and riding near the coast very thirsty. Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10 Entertaining Low-Budget Movie by Roger Corman Worth a bag of popcorn if you need another movie to fill out a night of Corman Poe movies. Its a just okay thriller with a more interesting production history. Its also directed well enough that you don't realize that there were actually five directors other than Roger Corman behind the camera.Ĭurrently floating around in the public domain (cheap video copies are to be had) this is a movie worth seeing if you want to see how Jack Nicholson started or how Boris Karloff ended up. Its the sort of movie that shouldn't work on any level but some how does.Its well acted considering that no one probably had any idea what they were starring in. The story of a French soldier following a mysterious woman to a castle is so disjointed that they actually shot a scene where Jack Nicholson grabs one of the characters and asks him whats going on, its at that point all of the loose ends are brought together in a tenuous grip. If you can forgive your favorite actors anything and accept that this is a paste up job, then you'll have yourself an okay time at the movies. The second is the understand that this film was pieced together from scraps of film shot by various directors to fit in with footage that had been shot of Karloff on left over sets after the original feature had been finished. First how much you like the actors involved. Reviewed by dbborroughs 5 / 10 An intriguing mess of a curioĮnjoyment of this film will depend on two things. Andre learns that she is the Baroness, who died twenty years ago. He claims there's no woman in the castle, but shows Andre a painting which does indeed portray her. However, Baron Von Leppe is old and seems reluctant to let Andre in. Andre learns that in order to help the girl, he must go to castle of Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff), and when he arrives, Andre sees the woman looking out of a window. After he leaves, he sees the woman again, and while trying to follow her, is saved by a man from certain death. Andre loses consciousness while trying to follow her, and is attacked by a bird and awakes in a house where an old woman (Dorothy Neumann) claims never to have seen the woman. Eventually she takes him towards the sea, where she disappears in rough water. But the woman doesn't answer, doesn't even greet him and walks away. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman (Sandra Knight) and asks her for directions to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. Lieutenant Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) has been accidentally separated from his regiment.
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