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Features: DVD
Editor's Note
Horror legend Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson team up in this disjointed but enjoyable Roger Corman quickie. Nicholson plays Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, an officer under Napoleon who finds himself lost along a stretch of beach, where he is seduced by the beautiful Helene (Sandra Knight), who may or may not be a ghost. His obsession leads him to the gloomy castle of Baron Von Leppe (Karloff), a recluse haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, Ilse, who Andre suspects is actually Helene, or vice versa. Longtime Corman regular Dick Miller plays Stefan, Von Leppe's trusty servant, and Dorothy Neumann is a witch who may be using Helene as a tool for revenge. All the characters do lots of skulking around the gloomy sets and outdoors along the beautiful Big Sur coastline, where the exteriors were filmed. Corman shot the interior scenes in two days, on sets left standing from his previous film, THE RAVEN. Though a little short on coherence, it's a lot of fun, and it's great to see Karloff and Nicholson together in a sort of passing of the torch. A nicely ominous mood maintains itself with the help of Ronald Stein's robust score.
Plot Summary
Intrigued and entranced by a mysteriously elusive woman, an officer in Napoleon's army follows the object of his desires into a baron's eerie castle. But then the French lieutenant discovers that he's trapped inside with a baron who's not all there, in search of a woman who keeps disappearing before his eyes.
| Features | Region 1 Encoding | | Jack Nicholson Biography | | Theatrical Trailer | | Snap Case |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: United American |
| Release Date: 9/7/1999 |
| Running Time: 79 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1963 | | Catalog ID: 40092 | | UPC: 00084296400928 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "I'm sorry, sir, but surely I made enough noise to waken the dead."----Andre (Jack Nicholson) to Baron Von Leppe (Boris Karloff) | | "I may not enter the house of God. I have made my pact with another!"----the witch (Dorothy Neumann) |
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