The amazing Mara Russell-Tavernan (usually holding a cigarette beween her "slender and cruel" fingers and wearing what looks like the same slinky thirties cocktail dress she wore in 'Castle Sinister') arches her eyebrows like Gale Sondergard in 'The Letter' and Vampira in 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' as another matriarch in this tinny but atmospherically shot (although the shots don't always match up) remake of the 1948 classic told in flashback to Valentine Dyall.
This time she's the glacial Irma, Marquis of Enderby, described as "50% Hun" (like our own dear Queen), presiding over the same big old house about which her Nazi lover skulks and signals to library footage of a German sub before (SPOILER COMING:) they share a similar fate on a sandy beach to the damned lovers in 'Duel in the Sun'.
This time she's the glacial Irma, Marquis of Enderby, described as "50% Hun" (like our own dear Queen), presiding over the same big old house about which her Nazi lover skulks and signals to library footage of a German sub before (SPOILER COMING:) they share a similar fate on a sandy beach to the damned lovers in 'Duel in the Sun'.