Die! Die! My Darling!

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Die! Die! My Darling!

1965

1h 37m

Horror

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Patricia Carroll (Stefanie Powers) is an American woman who travels to London to marry her boyfriend, Alan Glentower (Maurice Kaufmann). While there, Patricia stops by to visit Mrs. Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead), the mother of her deceased ex-fiancé, intending to pay her respects. Upon arriving, however, Patricia discovers that Mrs. Trefoile's grief for her son has transformed her into a sociopath. When Mrs. Trefoile begins holding Patricia prisoner, she must find a way to escape.

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Time Out

One of the best of Hammer's psychological thrillers, mainly thanks to Richard Matheson's ingenious and terrifying script.

Jan 26, 2006

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A.H. Weiler

New York Times

The last time Miss Bankhead appeared in a film was in the 1953 Main Street to Broadway. Although she towers above the cast and story, her present effort adds little to her record.

Rated: 2/5

May 9, 2005

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Wendy Michener

Maclean's Magazine

If you like this sort of picture, it's worth seeing for Tallulah alone. She's terrific.

Jul 16, 2019

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TV Guide

Bankhead is superbly cast and performs far above par.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 10, 2007

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 2, 2005

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Throw-away Tallulah Bankhead vehicle is a curiosity at best.

Rated: 1/5

May 31, 2005

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Blobbo X

Hitchcock want-be (even have swinging light shot) weakened by TV show score. Pretty Stephanie Powers just 21 here. (Cigarette-voice Bankhead older.)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/22/24

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m R

I saw this film in 1965. Suspense (Hitchcock) & anxiety .The film scared the hell out of me! The magnificent Tallulah Bankhead played the role perfectly. I felt the anguish & terror of a religious zealot. I hated her💔for that. Stephanie Powers (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.) ; became a hero to me...LoL!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/30/24

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michael b

wonderful Movie, Loved It.🌟🌟🌟🌟

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/03/23

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Tallulah Bankhead — in her last movie — absolutely owns every scene she's in here, playing Mrs. Trefoile,the mother of Patricia Carroll's (Stefanie Powers) deceased fiance. As she comes to London, Patricia decides to get closure by visiting the old woman. Yet within a few scenes, she's now a captive of the hysterically religious woman and is due to be exorcised. Trefoile also has three servants — Harry (Peter Vaughan), Anna (Yootha Joyce) and Joseph (Donald Sutherland) — who are keeping our heroine away from the rest of the world, hiding her from her fiancee Alan Glentower (Maurice Kaufmann). Also known as Fanatic**, this is a strong entry in the psychobiddy genre that has Richard Matheson adapting Anne Blaisdell's novel Nightmare*. It was directed by Silvio Narizzano, who also made the Dennis Hopper and Carroll Baker movie Bloodbath and Georgy Girl. Nearly fifty years after making this movie, Stefanie Powers acted in Looped, a play based on a true story about Bankhead being inebriated and unable to loop the line, "Die! Die my darling!" for this film. The role was originated by Valerie Harper, who was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance despite the play closing after 33 performances. Harper played the role on the road until become sick with brain cancer. *One of the many names of Elizabeth Linington, who also wrote under her real name and the alter egos Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill and Dell Shannon. **Bankhead sued Columbia Pictures when they retitled this for U.S. theaters.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

Fun little thriller. How much you enjoy it depends upon how much you enjoy seeing tallulah Bankhead play an overly moralistic religious fanatic

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Not a bad little movie. While the music and camera angle choices can be jarring at times, its quite atmospheric and paranoid feeling. Bankhead has a blast as an out of her mind holy roller who has a rather untethered relationship with reality.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Harry

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Yootha Joyce

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Synopsis

Patricia Carroll (Stefanie Powers) is an American woman who travels to London to marry her boyfriend, Alan Glentower (Maurice Kaufmann). While there, Patricia stops by to visit Mrs. Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead), the mother of her deceased ex-fiancé, intending to pay her respects. Upon arriving, however, Patricia discovers that Mrs. Trefoile's grief for her son has transformed her into a sociopath. When Mrs. Trefoile begins holding Patricia prisoner, she must find a way to escape.

Director: Silvio Narizzano
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Screenwriter: Richard Matheson
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 4, 2011
Runtime: 1h 37m

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