Countless movies knocked off Psycho after it came out, but only the TV movie Scream, Pretty Peggy also featured Bette Davis.
From 1969 to 1975, ABC put out weekly films. They functioned as TV pilots, testing grounds for up-and-coming filmmakers, and places for new and old stars to shine. Every month, Chloe Walker revisits one of these movies. This is
1960, and yet the Hitchcock masterpiece left a long, creepy shadow over the MOTW landscape. Those claustrophobic, grimy, intimate thrills, and the way they were executed on such a tight budget, became the North Star for legions of budding small-screen schlockmeisters.. He played the title character, recently released from a mental institution and suffering from psychosomatic blindness, convinced upon his return home that a mysterious figure is trying to kill him.
Sian Barbara Allen just had a few TV bit parts to her name before her role in 1972’s psychological thriller, Allen is a strange combination of oblivious and obnoxious; she’s incapable of keeping any of her feelings hidden, which does put a damper on her attempts at detective work. In real life, it’s unquestionable that the character would be unbearable to know, and yet in Allen’s capable hands, her bulldozer guilelessness is surprisingly endearing.
Then there’s the great Bette Davis, as Jeffrey’s sardonic drunken mother, and the sole living keeper of his dark secret. She was many years from her heyday, and a solid decade into her “” era by the time the ABC MOTW aired in the autumn of 1973 . Nevertheless, she continued to bring a stubborn hauteur to parts that, on paper, were downright demeaning.
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