The Leech Woman

The Leech Woman

She drained men of their loves and lives!
Overview:

An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

Released: 1960-05-01
Duration: 01:17:00
Genre: Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Director: Edward Dein
Keywords: Rejuvenation Camp Pineal Gland Dysfunctional Marriage Eternal Youth Murder Hormone Ring Female Villain Ends With Death Death Of Title Character Loss Of Fiancee Tribal Rite Great White Hunter Endocrinology Elixir Quicksand Dynamite Alcoholism Doctor Jungle Old Woman Suicide Expedition Tribe Psychotronic Film Breaking Down A Door Scientist Endocrinologist Alcoholic Husband Wife Relationship Marital Strife Whiskey Frustrated Wife Drinking Liquor Marital Quarrel Laboratory Assistant Microscope Stereo Microscope Centenarian African Tribe Reverse Aging Slowed Aging Process Reversing The Aging Process Jungle Guide Stock Footage Elephant Monkey Snake Lion Hippopotamus Crocodile Wildlife Hyena Trek Unhappy Wife Unhappy Marriage Leopard Sedan Chair Cane African Tribesman Captured Captive Orchid Posing As One's Niece Jealous Girlfriend Jealous Fiancee Romantic Rival Widow Old Age Makeup Wrinkles Jewelry Lawyer Drunk Purse Parking Predatory Woman Fiance Fiancee Relationship Champagne Bottle Revolver Fluid Love Triangle Police Detective Attorney Con Man Calling Card Jumping To One's Death Falling Through A Glass Coffee Table Falling To Death Revenge Human Guinea Pig African Jungle Running Away Tribal Village Pollen Frail Woman Ritual Ritual Sacrifice Necklace Old Age Gland Captivity Explosion Escape Rapid Aging Pouch Tribal Ritual Secret Sexually Aggressive Woman Wall Safe Behind Picture Wad Of Money Jealous Woman Murderess Homicide Detective Shooting A Lock Youth Restored Dead Body In A Closet Youth Serum Wife Gender In Title Three Word Title Animal In Title Marriage Staircase Search Warrant Police Investigation Murder Suspect Kiss Marriage Proposal Orchestral Music Score Slave Wall Safe Archive Footage Tent Skull Nurse Diamond Necklace Convertible Catfight Airport
Description

A mysterious old woman named Malla (Estelle Hemsley) who claims to have been brought to America 140 years ago as a slave approaches endocrinologist Dr. Paul Talbot (Terry) and promises to reveal to him the secret of eternal youth if he will fund her final trip back to Africa, so that she can be beautiful and young for one last night before she dies.

Paul is unhappily married to the alcoholic June (Gray), who is 10 years his elder. Paul prefers younger women. "Old women," he says, "give me the creeps." They follow Malla to Africa and witness a secret ceremony of the Nando tribe that utilizes orchid pollen and a sacrificial male's pineal gland secretions. The secretions, extracted from the back of the neck via a special ring and mixed with the pollen, temporarily transform Malla into a young, beautiful woman (Kim Hamilton).

After discovering that her conniving husband only brought her along as "a guinea pig who could talk," June takes revenge, choosing him to be sacrificed so that she can use his pineal gland extract to become young again herself, though Malla warns her that the transformation will not last long. She steals the ring and pollen, kills her jungle guide (John van Dreelen) and returns to the United States. Masquerading as her own niece, Terry Hart, she keeps herself young by picking up men and killing them for their pineal extract. But each time the potion wears off, she is older than she was before.

As Terry, June quickly becomes enamored of her lawyer Neil Foster (Williams), a man half her actual age. She kills his jealous fiancée Sally Howards (Talbott), draining her pineal gland and eliminating Sally as competition.

When the police come to investigate the murders that June has committed, she uses Sally's pineal gland extract but finds that it does not work because it is from a woman. Before the police can arrest her, she throws herself out her bedroom window, crashes to the ground and dies. When they see her body, it is much older and much more shriveled than ever.

When a very old African woman offers an ambitious endocrinologist the secret of eternal youth, he decides to take his estranged and no-longer-young-and-beautiful wife along with him on the safari. But then she finds out the true reason for their sudden reconciliation is so that she can serve as his guinea pig.

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