She Waits (1972) (TV)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Delbert Mann

Writer:

Art Wallace (writer)

Release Date:

28 January 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife. |

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Occult | Possession | Ex Wife | Husband Wife Relationship

Cast

Patty Duke	...	Laura Wilson
David McCallum	...	Mark Wilson
Lew Ayres	...	Dr. Sam Carpenter
Dorothy McGuire	...	Sarah Wilson
Beulah Bondi	...	Angela Medina (Mrs. M)
James T. Callahan	...	David Brody
Nelson Olmsted	...	Kurawicz
Harry Kerwin	...	Robert

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Iceland:12

Company:

Metromedia Productions

Movie Connections:

References Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Helen Keller, one of the men from U.N.C.L.E., and a ghost. How can you go wrong?

Mostly, "She Waits" is your average woman-goes-to-house-and-strange-things-start-happening story, but it's kept afloat by the good performances. Patty Duke plays Laura Wilson, who goes with her husband Mark (David McCallum) to his childhood home, where his first wife died. His mother Sarah (Dorothy McGuire) contends that his first wife never left the house and is waiting to get him back. You can probably guess what starts happening thereafter.

Overall, the movie has everything that we would expect in such a movie, namely the eerie house and overpossessive mother. Most of the dialog is routine, but there are some good lines. For example, housekeeper Mrs. M (Beulah Bondi) says of Los Angeles: "What self-respecting ghost would want to live here?" Lew Ayres (yes, the "All Quiet on the Western Front" star who later became a conscientious objector) plays the doctor.

Nothing new, but innocuous.