Mill of the Stone Women (1960) on Netflix
Hans von Arnim comes to a Dutch island to write about Professor Gregorius Wahl, whose windmill holds a carousel of female figures. Wahl warns him away from his ailing daughter, Elfie.
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Plot summary
Hans von Arnim travels to a remote Dutch island to research a story about the carousel of female figures that the sculptor Gregorius Wahl keeps in an old windmill, and he is given a room in the mill's attic. There he meets Elfie, the professor's attractive but ailing daughter, and falls in love with her. When Hans's girlfriend, Liselotte, visits, the carousel upsets her so badly that she faints. Wahl explains that Elfie suffers from a mysterious illness that also took her mother's life, and that Dr. Loren Bohlem, the physician who lives in the house, watches over her day and night. Women from the area keep disappearing.
Cast
- Alberto Archettias Konrad
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The opening credits claim the plot comes from a short story by Pieter van Weigen in a book called Flemish Tales, but neither the book nor the Flemish author exists; the film's publicity department made it up.
- Mill of the Stone Women was the first Italian horror film shot in colour, counting neither the comedy Uncle Was a Vampire; its director of photography was Pier Ludovico Pavoni.
