SAVAGE INTRUDER – Miriam Hopkins

Savage Intruder (1970)
Direction and Screenplay: Donald H. Wolfe. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, John David Garfield (aka David Garfield), Gale Sondergaard, Florence Lake, Lester Matthews, Joe Besser, Virginia Wing, Riza Royce, Charles Martin, Minta Durfee
 
Savage Intruder was filmed in 1970 but (briefly) released in 1974, and is also known as either Hollywood Horror House (the video edition) or The Comeback (its production title).
The film stars Miriam Hopkins, in her last big-screen role, as a drunken, washed-up Norma Desmond-ish movie queen living in a decaying mansion in the Hollywood Hills, watching her old movies while referring to herself in the third person.
John David Garfield (John Garfield’s son) plays the young psychopath who seduces her. Gale Sondergaard plays the mysterious housekeeper, Lez (that [...]

by Danny Fortune | April 22, 2008   
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