Tormented (1960)

User Rating:

3.1/10   

Director:

Bert I. Gordon

Writers:

Bert I. Gordon (story)
George Worthing Yates (screenplay)

Release Date:

22 September 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

A ghost-woman owned him body and soul!

Plot:

A man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Ghost | Lighthouse | Seaweed | Blackmail

Cast

Richard Carlson	...	Tom Stewart
Susan Gordon	...	Sandy Hubbard
Lugene Sanders	...	Meg Hubbard
Juli Reding	...	Vi Mason
Joe Turkel	...	Nick, The Blackmailer
Lillian Adams	...	Mrs. Ellis
Gene Roth	...	Mr. Nelson, lunch stand operator
Vera Marshe	...	Mrs. Hubbard (as Vera Marsh)
Harry Fleer	...	Frank Hubbard
Merritt Stone	...	Clergyman
George Stanley
Dick Walsh
Leslie Thomas

Also Known As:

Tormented... by the She-Ghost of Haunted Island! (USA) (promotional title)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Malibu, California, USA

Company:

Cheviot Productions

Trivia:

A portion of the score actually came from William Castle's House on Haunted Hill (1959) which Allied Artists had distributed the previous year.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Tormented (#5.14)" (1992)

Why you don't get mixed up with women named Vi.

This movie is another could have been tolerable flick with a few less talking scenes and more spook action that did not come off as a bit lame. Or perhaps an even shorter running time could have helped too. There were quite a few shots of the beach that did remind me too of one of those album commercials. The story, a man apparently has moved to an island to get away from some things in his life, unfortunately one of those things finds him in the form of an ex lover who still has a thing for him. Well they argue for a bit on a lighthouse and then her fat butt breaks the lighthouse railing and before Tom can make up his mind to save her, she plunges to her death. Fine by me, she seemed to be a controlling harpy and quite frankly isn't saving someone merely an option. So suffice to say she haunts poor Tom for the rest of the movie, making him question his own sanity at times. Though she is clearly there and not merely a byproduct of his imagination cause she sure caused a stir at the wedding. Well for most of the picture I felt rather sorry for Tom, until the end where he screws up big time and becomes a dumb jerk for what he was thinking about doing. So that is about the sum of the plot, throw in a blind woman with another tale of haunting and a crazy boats man who will go to the ends of the earth for five bucks and you have your movie.