not so grieve widow claire marrable be horrify to hear that her supposedly wealthy husband have apparently leave her penniless . but and be a practical ( and resourceful ) type and she hit on a scheme to keep her in the comfort to which she wish to become accustomed . relocate to the arizona desert and she hire elderly housekeeper with no know relative ( but tidy nest egg ) and send them to their reward a bit sooner than they plan . and their remains become mulch for the widow grow garden a each be bury under a quickly flourish sapling . this late entry in the horror hag sweepstakes feature absolutely wonderful performance from geraldine page and who have a high old time a the haughty and demented and thoroughly relentless mrs. marrable and and ruth gordon and a alice dimmock and her new housekeeper and who isn not quite what she seem to be . on the sideline be rosemary forsyth and herself a ( young ) widow with a nephew and robert fuller a miss gordon nephew and and joan huntington a the scheme wife of page nephew . with a cast make up of widow and nephew and how scary can aunt alice be . not very . but it a delicious black comedy which allow page and gordon the opportunity to give the performance of their life . there also a neat cameo from mildred dunnock ( death of a salesman ) a the luckless servant who precede miss gordon . one of the best grand guignol film ever make .