Word: parakeets
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Turns, anyone? At this point, indeed, many customers will be tempted to take a powder. But those who can stomach Bette's cooking-on another occasion she serves a salad of unplucked parakeet-will be amply rewarded by the horror of her company. In what may well be the year's scariest, funniest and most sophisticated chiller, she gives a performance that cannot be called great acting but is certainly grand guignol. And Joan effectively plays the bitch to Bette's witch...
...servitude, Bette twigs her sister's game. The shock, the realization that she has wasted her life, knocks a screw loose. With the cunning of unreason she connives a hideous revenge. Day by day she tantalizes her sister with sumptuous meals, but after the rat and the parakeet the cripple is afraid to eat. Day by day the victim grows weaker. When she calls for help, Bette rips out the phone. When she crawls downstairs, Bette ties her up and tapes her mouth shut. When she warns the maid, Bette cracks the woman's skull...
...Charlie in the title is a colonel (John Hubbard), who is the vet's superior officer. When his girl (Linda Lawson) falls in love with the boy vet, Charlie tries to ship the boy out-but no chicken colonel can dispose of the fellow who saves the parakeet that belongs to the granddaughter of an old man in blue denims who seems to have been scraped off the deck of a river barge but turns out to be the first cousin of Charles de Gaulle...