Starring George Coulouris, Robert MacKenzie, Norman Claridge, Marpessa Dawn, Jimmy Vaughn
Directed by Charles Saunders
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A scientist brings back from Africa a mammoth plant that consumes young women and dispenses a life-giving fluid, with aims on using it to become master of life and death.
Coulouris, familiar to most audiences from his role in Citizen Kane, is really slumming here in a slow-moving sci-fi thriller that focuses mostly on his character's abduction of women and throwing them to the plant again and again. There's a housekeeper character he's given up any affection for, as well as a young maid (Quatermass 2's Vera Day) he eventually targets for a new relationship, but not much meaningful is done with them, or his native assistant. I enjoyed Edwin Astley's music score, which has some eerie highlights for the experiments, but goes silent a bit too often. The film overall isn't terrible, but could use a lot more elements of interest to keep the viewer engaged, as my friend Dan Day Jr. also indicated he had a hard time getting through it.
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