aka Lady of the Shadows. Roger Corman's The Terror. The Castle of Terror. The Haunting.Lieutenant Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), is separated from his regiment, when he meets a young woman (Sandra Knight), who walks off into the sea. Some time later he meets her again, but again she disappears. He then learns that she is at the Baron's castle. The Baron (Boris Karloff), reluctantly lets Duvalier in, but denies that the woman is there, instead showing him a painting of a lady who looks just like the mystery woman, and was the Baron's wife, who died 20 years previously. Will Duvalier be able to get to the bottom of the mystery?
One of those Corman efforts where he shot first, as he had some sets and some actors, then tried to piece it together into a coherent story. So what we have is a Corman improvised Edgar Allan Poe style film which consequently is slightly disjointed at times, but it still manages to sustain interest, mainly due to the solid performance of Karloff and provide some thrills along the way.
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