A non-western set in the West which anticipated the plot of Alfred Hitchcock's classic PSYCHO (1960) by three years. Requiring a rest from the rigors of legal work, a young lawyer (Barker) goes to stay at a Utah lodge. He soon becomes friendly with lodge employee Bancroft, despite the
distractions of the voluptuous Van Doren, a fellow guest, and Windsor, sister of the crippled proprietor, Randell. A series of mutilation murders of young women occurs, and everybody is suspect in the eyes of sheriff Dehner. Barker identifies Bancroft as the culprit. She turns out to be psychotic,
and got rid of the women to ensure that she is the only attractive female remaining in t...
Released:
1957
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins