Coming out of The Locker today is a 1963 American International Picture film starring on of my favorite Klingons, William Campbell (“my dear Captain Koloth.. thank you Bill Shatner). Also, of note, is that this is Francis Ford Coppola’s first credited directing gig.

 

Louise Haloran bears witness to her husband’s heart attack while rowing out in a row boat and than she disposes of the body by throwing it overboard. She then forges a letter to the family that he had “been called away on business.” As explained by the cabbage-head husband before she “deep-sixes” him, she gets absolutely no slice of the lucrative “family pie” if he dies before his mother. When Louise wanders to Ireland to the Haloran ancestral home (where nobody speaks with any discernable accent or dialect, mind you) to see how she can snake out some of the family loot, she learns that the family is haunted by the memory of Kathleen, the daughter who drown in the family pond several years earlier. The surviving two brothers oblige their dowager mother in her strange rituals to “remember” Kathleen. When the brother’s lady friends (the wife of the deceased “at-the-bottom-of-the-lake-but-on-business-in-New-York husband and the fiance of the other brother) odd happenings ensue. The mother is somewhat kooky and has changed the will, leaving the estate and money to charity in the dead daughter’s name.