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Coleen Gray
June Talbot
Grant Williams
Neil Foster
Phillip Terry
Dr. Paul Talbot
Gloria Talbott
Sally Howard
John van Dreelen
David Garvay (listed as "Bertram" in end credits but called "David" in the film)
Estelle Hemsley
Old Malla
Kim Hamilton
Young Malla
Arthur Batanides
Jerry Lando
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Review 1DiscussionA review by John Chard
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Written by John Chard on Fri May 23 2014
Old women always give me the creeps!
What do you expect from a film called The Leech Woman? It is by definition one of those sci-fi "B" movies strung together as a support feature that played whilst theatre patrons were still necking, chatting and eating etc.
Plot follows in the tradition of something like The Wasp Woman (1959), that plays on the theme of a woman striving to stay young as the advent of time catches up with her. Cue bonkers science, where here it involves a trek to the jungles of Africa to unearth the secret of eternal youth. Naturally things get very bent out of shape and...
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- suicide
- africa
- dynamite
- expedition
- tribe
- alcoholism
- eternal youth
- dysfunctional marriage
- murder
- jungle
- doctor
- quicksand
- female villain
- hormone therapy