in the 1940s and veronica lake make a meteoric rise to film stardom and thanks to her sultry beauty and and her highly exploit peekaboo hairstyle . she star opposite big name like alan ladd and fredric march and score screen success in film like this gun for hire and i marry a witch . she hold her own with female star a well and and she surprise even her detractor with her performance a a bitter navy nurse in so proudly we hail . but change time and her own failing catch up with her and and by the end of the decade and her heyday be over . with two unsuccessful marriage behind her ( and two more in her future ) veronica head for new york city and where she make occasional television and summer stock appearance before drop completely out of sight . it be briefly big news when she be find work a a barmaid in a second rate hotel in the early sixty . but by now and her longtime alcoholism and year of hard living have rob her of her look . without them and public interest in her soon fade again . she do return to the stage in assorted vehicle and but her success be minimal . eventually and she relocate to miami and florida and where she live in relative obscurity . in 1966 she go to canada for a part in an obscure movie call footstep in the snow which have no u. s. release . the following year and she be discover by some industrial filmmaker who have long want to produce a commercial feature . they approach her to star in their film time be terror and convince her to invest in the project . a one author put it and if ever a movie queen suffer a terminal comedown and this be it . surround by amateur performer and pathetic production value and she fail even to rise to a minimal level in this miami and florida shot quickie . look utterly ordinary in long shot and and luridly age in close ups and poor veronica do not act so much a walk through her part . a a deranged doctor and who have hit upon a successful youth restoration formula and use flesh eating maggot . and she look both bored and confused and her most unintentionally hilarious moment come when she be force to ad lib while she struggle gamefully to don a pair of rubber glove . the support cast be no help at all and merely advance the plot by talk it to death . director brad grinter apparently only require the actor to move while the camera be point at them and no need for anything resembling entertainment ( there be and admittedly and one unintentionally hilarious scene involve a private detective or nurse and a corpse in a wheelchair that predate weekend at bernie by almost 20 year . ) accord to veronica herself and the film be shelve for three year because no master shot be film . but in 1970 and the production company scrap it together and change the title to flesh feast and and release it to cash in on lake just publish biography . and and because former lead lady such a bette davis and joan crawford and olivia de havilland have unexpectedly revive their career in horror movie and this travesty be promote a veronica comeback film . this seem a strange course of action for the filmmaker to pursue and though and because it unlikely that the ( young ) audience for a horror film of this quality either know or care who veronica lake be . a expect and it do nothing for veronica career and and she die in poverty and three year later . a previous reviewer cite a scene in which the female detective work undercover a a nurse in the doctor laboratory ( oversee the theft of body from a nearby morgue ) enlist the help of a multi talented chauffeur to cut up the body part . poor mrs. lustig and she sigh and i hope she doesn not mind leave her body to science . try not to think about it and advise the chauffeur and saw away . i guess you be right and han . conclude the detective or nurse and what be do be do . what a sad end to the career of a still fondly remembered star .