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What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 101 mins
Length: 9,058 ft
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Filmways / Raymax
Executive Producers: Edward S. Feldman
Producers: George Edwards, James C. Pratt
SCRIPT
Script: Henry Farrell DIRECTION
Director: Curtis Harrington
Assistant Director: Claude Binyon Jr PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Lucien Ballard
Colour: DeLuxe EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: William H. Reynolds MUSIC
Music: David Raksin
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Al Overton Jr
Re-Recordist: Bud Grenzbach MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: William Tuttle
Costume Designer: Morton Haack VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: Phill Norman, Cinefx DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Eugene Lourié
Set Decorator: Jerry Wunderlich MISCELLANEOUS
Choreographer: Tony Charmoli CAST
Debbie Reynolds (Adelle Bruckner)
Shelley Winters (Helen Hill)
Dennis Weaver (Lincoln Palmer)
Agnes Moorehead (Sister Alma)
Micheál MacLiammóir (Hamilton Starr)
Sammee Lee Jones (Winona Palmer)
Robbi Morgan (Rosalie Greenbaum)
Helene Winston (Mrs. Greenbaum)
Molly Dodd (Mrs Rigg)
Peggy Rea (Mrs Schultz)
Yvette Vickers (Mrs Barker)
Paulle Clark (Mrs Plumb)
Pamelyn Ferdin (Kiddy M.C.)
Debbie Van Den Houten (Sue Anne Schultz)
Tammy Lee (Charlene Barker)
Teresa De Rose (Donna Plumb)
Swen Swenson (gigolo)
Timothy Carey (the tramp)
Harry Stanton (Malcolm Hays)
James Dobson (cab driver)
Logan Ramsey (Detective Sergeant West)
Peggy Lloyd Patten (Ellie Banner)
Gary Combs (Matt Hill)
Sadie Delfino (midget lady)
Annette Davis (spinster)
Helene Heigh (widow)
Peter Brocco (wizened old man)
Minta Durfee Arbuckle (old lady)
Peggy Walton (young girl)
Douglas Deane (fanatical man)
Marcia Garcia, Sharann Hisamoto, Stacy Hollow, Bambi Meyers, Roxanne 'Rocky' Meyers, Vicki Schreck, Keri Shuttleton, Shawn Steinman, Madelon Tupper, Sian Winship (dance school students)
Allen Dinson (the man) SUMMARY Two women, Adelle and Helen, flee the aftermath of a murder committed by their sons by moving to Hollywood and opening a tap-dancing school. But one of them, Helen, is as unhinged as her son and more deaths are soon to follow... AVAILABILITY UK
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists USA
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists CENSORSHIP HISTORY Finland
Rating: K-18 Sweden
Rating: 15 UK
Rating: X
USA
Rating: GP
AWARDS
1972
Academy Awards, USA
Best Costume Design (Morton Haack) - nominated TIMELINE
1972
May
26: Finland - theatrical release September
18: Sweden - theatrical release
1977
October
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (Thames Television)) ALTERNATIVE TITLES Best of Friends? - shooting title
Was ist denn bloß mit Helen los? - German title
?Qué le pasa a Helen? - Spanish title
Kauhun vangitsemat - Finnish title
I raptus segreti di Helen - Italian title
Obsessao Sinistra - Brazilian title
Vad hände med Helen? - Swedish title REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Filmfacts vol.14 no.9 (1971) p.214 (USA)
credits, reprinted reviews Films and Filming vol.18 no.4 (January 1972) pp.53-54 (UK)
credits, review Films in Review vol.22 no.8 (October 1971) pp.501 - 505 (USA)
article Hollywood Reporter vol.214 no.24 (8 January 1971) p.1 (USA)
credits Hollywood Reporter vol.216 no.30 (9 June 1971) p.3 (USA)
review Monthly Film Bulletin vol.38 no.455 (December 1971) p.252 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review Psychotronic no.16 pp.44, 45 (USA)
review Sight and Sound vol.41 no.1 (Winter 1971 / 1972) p.53 (UK)
review Today's Cinema no.9954 (5 November 1971) p.12 (UK)
review Variety 9 June 1971 p.17 (USA)
credits, review Video Watchdog no.14 pp.35-36 (UK)
review
BOOKS
Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd edition) p.245
credits, review Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.535
credits KEYWORDS
hollywood, insanity, dancing
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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