Now I know what you’re thinking, but this movie is not a
dull documentary talking about bees and their queen. It’s actually
based on a novel about a young woman named Jennifer Stewart, visiting her
cousin at her luxurious Mansion in Georgia. When
Jennifer arrives to the mansion her cousin isn’t there to greet her, but
instead she is met by her cousin’s children. Trissa and her brother Ted. She then meets her cousin’s
sister in-law, Carol, who appeared at the time to be in a pretty heated
argument between her and her boyfriend Jud. Later she meets her cousin’s
husband Avery, who was talking business with a friend. After all that was
finished Avery greeted Jennifer in a frightening way by trying to intimidate
her with a deep scar on his face that he got in an auto mobile accident.
Finally after meeting everyone else at the mansion,
Jennifer’s cousin Eva Phillips arrives. Eva is dressed in fine clothes while
also wearing a beautiful pure white minx coat. Her young children run up to her
with open arms. She has a sweet tender smile on her face with a soft voice to
match, but yet for some reason the other members of her family seemed bitter
towards her. Also when they talked to or about Eva they would have a tone of
hatred towards her. The only one who didn’t seem to have any hard feelings
towards her was Jennifer. And she wondered why no one else liked Eva like she
did.
There are a lot of twist and turns in this movie, from the
nightmares of Eva’s son Ted, to the death of Eva’s sister in-law, leading up to
the drastic ending of the film. The novel was written by Edna. L. Lee and the
movie was directed by Ronald MacDougall. The film starred Lucy Marlow as
Jennifer Stewart and the “Mommy Dearest” herself Joan Crawford as Eva Phillips.
