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The Screaming Woman

6.7(20)19721h 14m1

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.

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Released
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Language
English
  • buried alive
  • inheritance
  • nervous breakdown
  • mental illness
  • madness

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Director

Jack Smight

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TVNRABC29 Jan 1972

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The Screaming Woman was released on 29 January 1972.

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    Wuchak

    8/20/2022

    5/10

    **_Is the aged rich woman crazy or not?_** The owner of a large estate near Santa Barbara in SoCal has returned from a mental health facility (Olivia de Havilland). When she hears the sounds of a desperate woman on her grounds no one believes her and those who lust for lucre want her declared incompetent. Charles Robinson plays her son and Laraine Stephens his witchy alcoholic wife. Meanwhile Ed Nelson is on hand …

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    CinemaSerf

    5/28/2023

    7/10

    For some reason I kept seeing Helen Hayes in the role played here by Olivia de Havilland. She is a wealthy woman who claims to have heard screams from a body buried in the grounds of her estate. When she reports this to her family, they seize on the chance to have the old girl certified and to take control of her fortune. Can she get to the truth before she ends up in a padded cell? I liked her performance here. For …

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