Savage Intruder

Miriam Hopkins, one of Hollywood's finest actresses during the '30s, gives an appropriately hammy performance as a demented former movie queen who, when not chugging down a bottle of vodka, is staggering around her decaying Hollywood mansion (the real-life home of famous silent screen star Norma Talmadge), plotting to make a comeback. When she breaks her leg during a drunken episode, she is assisted by a good-looking but strange young man (John Garfield, Jr.) who passes himself off as a male nurse, but is, in fact, a sick psychopath who has been dismembering several women who live in the Hollywood Hills. (IMDb)