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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Curtis Harrington released in USA on 15 march 1972 with Shelley Winters
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
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Add to a movie listWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 British horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Ralph Richardson, Shelley Winters and Mark Lester. Like What's the Matter with Helen? (both films were included in MGM Midnite Movies Double Feature, and Winters requested that Harrington direct the picture) and better-known films such as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, it is one of the many films in the Grande Dame Guignol genre.
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Mrs. Forrest, in the eyes of the staff and children at an orphanage, is a sweet, kind-mannered and children-loving widow, who throws a lavish annual Christmas party at her mansion, Forrest Grange (known to the orphans as the "Gingerbread House") for ten of the best-mannered children at the orphanage. But secretly, she is a demented, sad and miserable woman who keeps the mummified remains of her daughter Katharine in a nursery room in the attic, singing lullabies to her and trying to contact her spirit with the assistance of (phony) psychic Mr. Benton. He fools Forrest into believing that the voice of Clarine, one of the servants, during the fake séances is that of Katharine.Actors
Shelley Winters
(Mrs. Forrest)
Mark Lester
(Christopher Coombs)
Ralph Richardson
(Mr. Benton)
Lionel Jeffries
(Police Insp. Willoughby)
Hugh Griffith
(Mr. Harrison, The Pigman)
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