The Gorgon

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The Gorgon ★★ 1964

In pre-WWI Germany, the lovely assistant to a mad brain surgeon moonlights as a snake-haired gorgon, turning men to stone. A professor arrives in the village to investigate, only to become another victim. 83m/C VHS . GB Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick Troughton, Jack Watson, Jeremy Longhurst, Toni Gilpin, Prudence Hyman; D: Terence Fisher; W: John Gilling; C: Michael Reed; M: James Bernard.