Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (also known as What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?) is a 1964 American horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead.
The film begins in 1927 when Charlotte's married lover, John Mayhew, is brutally murdered with a cleaver in the summerhouse. Charlotte and Mayhew had planned to elope, but John rejects her, according to the wishes of her f...
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (also known as What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?) is a 1964 American horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead.
The film begins in 1927 when Charlotte's married lover, John Mayhew, is brutally murdered with a cleaver in the summerhouse. Charlotte and Mayhew had planned to elope, but John rejects her, according to the wishes of her father. We see John Mayhew murdered, his hand and head cut off with a cleaver. The murderer is never seen, but Charlotte returns to the party with blood running down her dress. (The film shows the hand cut off and Mayhew's arm without a hand, but doesn't show the decapitation.)
Then it is 1964, and Charlotte Hollis (Davis) is a middle-aged, wealthy spinster who lives in the Louisiana plantation in Ascension Parish that has been in her family for generations. The Louisiana Highway Commission intends to demolish her home and build a new highway...
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