Whatever

 

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AUNT ALICE?-1969-Already loony Claire Marrable (Geraldine Page) goes off the deep end when she finds out her recently dead husband left her nothing in his will so she decides to kill her female servants. Relocating to Arizona, she gets rid of Mrs. Tinsley (Mildred Dunnock) and hires Mrs. Dimmock (Ruth Gordon). Her new next-door neighbor is Helen Vaughan (Rosemary Forsyth) and her young nephew Jim (Michael Barbera). She has an affair with Mike Darrah (Robert Fuller), a mechanic who is working with Dimmock to find out what happened to Miss Tinsley. 

It has a little twisting end and it's really not much but the score by Gerald Fried and photography by Joseph Biroc are a plus. It's based on a novel by Ursula Curtiss who also wrote “I Saw What You Did” which William Castle had made into a movie in 1965. Director Lee Katzin, besides his TV work, went to make the bizarre THE PHYNX (1970) and the pretty good LE MANS (1971). He also made the failed Sci-Fi TV movie THE STRANGER (1973). He replaced original director Bernard Girard on this after a week of filming. Right before the movie's release Ruth Gordon won a best supporting actress Academy Award for ROSEMARY'S BABY.

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