Tallulah Bankhead, long in retirement, plays an old lady whose son was killed in a car crash; she invites his fiance, Stefanie Powers, out to the house in the country for a memorial service. Turns out that Steffie can't leave once she gets there; the old bat's cuckoo as a jaybird, whose religious mania leads her to 'cleanse' Steffie so that she can marry the son up in heaven. Pretty soon there's a body in the basement and some stab wounds on our heroine and say, will nobody come rescue her? A good movie, not too many shocks or even scares but interesting in its way, with a daffy harpsichord score and fluidly directed by Silvio Narizzano, a TV director (which no doubt helps give the film its TV-movie look). Donald Sutherland is the idiot gardener, and he plays it as 'full idiot' as you can possibly go in a movie. Miss Power, all of 21, is fine and this film got her the part of The Girl from UNCLE back in the states. Miss Bankhead is wonderful, and apparently she was nice enough on the set, and every day the second filming ended her limo whisked her back to her hotel room, where she stayed until morning. The director remarked that she thought she was making utter crap, though, and joked about it throughout filming. Still, as those 'batty old lady' movies of the 1960s go, this is one of the better ones.