Fanatic (1965 film)
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Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!) is a 1965 British thriller directed by Silvio Narizzano for Hammer Films. It stars Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan, Yootha Joyce, Maurice Kauffmann and Donald Sutherland. Arthur Ibbetson was the cinematographer, and Wilfred Josephs wrote the score.
It was filmed at Elstree Studios and on location in Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire, during 1964. It was Bankhead's final film.
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The film is about an American woman, Pat Carroll (Powers), who visits Mrs Trefoile (Bankhead), the mother of her deceased fiancé, at a secluded house on the edge of an English village. Mrs Trefoile is fanatically religious, and it soon becomes apparent she blames her son's fiancée for his death. With the help of her equally psychotic servants, she holds Pat captive in an attempt to cleanse her soul.
