The Doll of Death

My summary line isn't saying this is a bad episode, it was pretty decent actually, but not too much happens in terms of the voodoo spell put on a man named Raphael(Alejandro Rey), who basically steals a woman named Shelia(Susan Strasberg), from a man named Alex(Barry Atwater). Keeping track? Don't get this confused with an earlier episode called "The Doll", and even though that episode is better than this one, I thought there were good performances by all involved, including an interesting scene or 2 from Jean Durand(Andrew)and Murray Matheson(Dr. Strang), especially an effective scene with the latter and Alex in a darkened house, soon after Alex decides to use voodoo on Raphael. It's entirely possible this episode was edited, as I seem to recall more pain inflicted upon Raphael by the curse, but this time around, I only got to see Alex's hands trying to crush the doll, which was made out to resemble poor Raphael, who only writhed in pain one time on the boat he and Shelia were about to sail away on. As I say this, I'm not wishing that much more pain on him, but it would've added to the episode. The ending was unexpected, and that's a good thing.

Barry Atwater stars as Alex Brandon, a plantation owner in the British West Indies who is planning on marrying a woman named Sheila Trent(played by Susan Strasberg) who ends up humiliating him and breaking his heart on their wedding day by running off with a former love named Raphael(played by Alejandro Rey). Enraged and despondent, he seeks revenge by using a voodoo doll to kill Raphael and win Sheila back, but this plan ends disastrously as one would expect... Mostly blah tale has a good cast but a stale plot, which ends about the way viewer would expect, though perhaps not hoped, as nobody here engenders much sympathy or interest. Murray Matheson comes off best in small role.

A young beautiful wild woman is about to marry a very rich man somewhere in the islands (Haiti or someplace like that, perhaps?). What messes things up is an arrangement that was made almost at birth. She is supposed to marry a macho guy who has little respect for boundaries. He crashes the wedding an takes her away. The rich guy doesn't take this sitting down. He connects with some kind of voodoo master and gets a doll made. It is sin the image of the reckless man who stole his bride. When he squeezes the doll, the man experiences incredible pain. They bring in a doctor, but there is no medical explanation for it. The young woman, who has grown up in this environment, knows what is going on and comes to the house. From then on, everything gets all confusing and hard to follow. The people we are supposed to sympathize with are so awful that I started pulling for the guy who bought the doll.