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Leech
Woman
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The message Leech woman gives is that the beauty of youth lies in the fact that it has to end and end fairly quickly. A doctor (Grant Williams) is given a powder for retarding the aging process for one fifty year old African woman named Marla. In his search for the magic powder for the resurrection of youth he follows the woman to the darkest jungles of Africa along with his persecuted wife who was taken along as an experimental guinea pig. The doctor gets his just dessert when he's sacrificed in order to restore his wifes youth. What follows is a dramatic escape from the African tribe by the guide and Gray and stealing of the magic powder. When Gray returns to America as young and beautiful Terry, she has to unfortunately kill innocent young men to retain her beauty. Overall a very slow moving film strags on and on. By the time the ball get rolling the films has already reached it's finale. An ingenious idea, sadly lacking decent execution, therefore the film disappoints. One can only ponder on what might have been had there been more attention paid to the plot, rather than on showing scenes of African wildlife and nature.
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