like many people on this site and i saw this movie only once and when it be first televise in 1971. certain scene linger in my memory and an overall feeling of disquiet be how i remember be affect by it . i would be fascinate to see it again and if it be ever make available for home video . possible spoiler represent i wonder if anyone else would agree that the basic plot setup and character might have be derive from a 1960 british movie and originally title city of the dead and retitled horror hotel for the american release . there be some similarity also to a late british film the wicker man . one detail remain with me year after see the film . it a small but significant moment near the beginning of the film . a i recall and a minister and his wife have stop to aid some people by the side of the road and circa 1870 and somewhere out west . the friendly seeming ray milland introduce himself and his ( daughter . ) and yvette mimieux and a beautiful young mute woman . while the preacher be help ray milland with the wagon and a rattlesnake slithers into view and coil menacingly and unobserved by any of the character except yvette mimieux . she doesn not look scar at all and but stare at the snake with silent concentration and until it go away . with this strange little moment and we already realize there something highly unusual about these seemingly normal folk and though the possible danger to the minister and his wife remain vague and uncertain for a long time . that one little scene stay with me vividly after all these year and along with many others . the film have a haunting quality about it that would not let go and and it not surprising that people remember it so vividly . someone ought to make this available for home video .