# Can you help ID this film (with nearly no clues?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-film-with-nearly-no-clues/250460>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 15, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-film-with-nearly-no-clues/250460 "2004-06-15T13:45:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-film-with-nearly-no-clues/250460/1 "2004-06-15T13:45:52Z")

</div>

The film had something to do with an evil older woman (Bette Davis in my minds eye, but probably not) in a large strange house / castle / dungeon, and there are a bunch of men trapped in the house under some circumstances. At one point one of the men is “strapped” to some sort of table with some curving metal talons that wrap around the entire length of his body, and this table drops through a sliding door in the floor…and then later the same man on the same table is somehow conveyed before the nasty woman on some kind of throne, and he complains about almost drowning in cold water(?).

I saw this on TV in the mid-late 70’s, but I would guess it was contemporary to the late 60’s. I don’t remember anything much beyond this bizarre image of a man held down to a table with, essentially, a bunch of giant 3-ring binder clasps.

Valuable prizes to the one that can help me out!  
cheers 'vark

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-film-with-nearly-no-clues/250460/2 "2004-06-15T14:55:34Z")

</div>

I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest it’s the 1973 tv-movie [I Love a Mystery](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070207/), based on the old radio show of the same name.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-film-with-nearly-no-clues/250460/3 "2004-06-16T00:28:16Z")

</div>

I’m bumping this in the hopes that we’ll see a definite answer. If there’s one thing the denizens of the SDMB are handy for, it’s identifying obscure movies.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-id-this-film-with-nearly-no-clues/250460/4 "2004-06-16T04:53:47Z")

</div>

Sounds to me it’s almost definitely [this movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067375/): Madame Sin.

> [@](#):
>
> Ms. Davis plays the evil Madam Sin, an oriental villainess who is plotting world conquest from her Scottish castle, fully equipped with laboratory, sonic weapons, hypnotic drugs, etc.