I love this movie so much

I'll tell you why so serious

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

In this Universal Sci-Fi drama, Dr. Paul Talbot (Phillip Terry) is an endocrinologist that spends most of his time with his experiments; ignoring his wife June (Coleen Gray), since she no longer is young and beautiful. A very old African woman Mala (Estelle Hemsley) enters his office claiming she is over a hundred years old and knows the way to reverse the aging process. Talbot convinces his wife to take a trip to Africa, not knowing she is to be the subject of an ultimate experiment. The safari to the dark continent proves to be more dangerous than the doctor could imagine.This movie is based on a story by Francis Rosenwald and Ben Pivar; directed by Edward Dein. Other players include: Grant Williams, John Van Dreelen, Gloria Talbott and features Kim Hamilton as the young Mala.

Edward Dein directed this horror yarn that stars Coleen Gray as June Talbot, an alcoholic and unhappy older woman married to a heartless doctor(played by Philip Terry) who is having multiple affairs. When a very old African woman visits him, she promises him an anti-aging cure in her native land, so takes her(and June) along on the safari back there, and the formula works only by extracting a fluid from the back of the neck of a man, killing him in the process(guess who!) June brings the cure back home by subterfuge, but it proves only temporary, forcing her to kill young men to stay young and beautiful. Grant Williams plays her attorney. Good performance by Gray can't save this silly and absurd film, that is only good for unintended laughs.

*Spoiler/plot- 1960, An unhappy wife of an obsessed endocrinologist gets involved in his search for a youth drug when an 140 years old African woman seeks out the doctor to get money to return to her African home when she reveals her secret of youth. The doctor and wife go to Africa and learn the secret, but the wife kills her husband and multiple people to stay young when the widow comes home to the US.*Special Stars- Colleen Gray, Grant Wiliams *Theme- Be careful what you wish for, you might not like it.*Based on- Doctor Jeckle and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Fountain of Youth myths *Trivia/location/goofs- ONLINE. This film is interesting in its attempt to take the story from urban US cities traveling into the 'darkest' remote parts of Africa and back. Continuity problem: The file footage shows several different well known African tribal dances of the era, but are unrelated tribes.*Emotion- A fun 50's B-movie romp from Universal Studios consisting of an interesting plot involving 50's cheesecake pin-up shots, some dramatic moral issues and interesting geographic location footage.

I sat down to watch this movie expecting to see a woman with a big rubber leech head chasing people around but it turns out Leech Woman offers something slightly more sophisticated. The story is that a scientist and his estranged wife head off to Africa to search for the fabled elixir of hokum which turns women young again. Obviously these days it would be a waste of time because every second advert I see for toothpaste or shampoo offers time renewal, time protection and suchlike whatever that means.One thing I liked about this movie was the way that every single character is awful in some way. There's a good story though it is a bit slow to start with. Some viewers have moaned about the rather obvious stock footage but anyone who is a fan of movies of this era will recognise it as just par for the course on a quick cheapie like this.Give it a try, despite the tacky name it's quite a good story and worth a watch.