Picture Mommy Dead (1966)

Director
Bert I. Gordon

Main cast
Don Ameche; Martha Hyer; Susan Gordon; Zsa Zsa Gábor; Maxwell Reed

Genres
Horror

Description
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by Zsa Zsa. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover, Maxwell Reed, to get the troubled girl to lead them to Zsa Zsa's missing diamond necklace.


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