A wonderful and very rare scene where Maria Montez is tied to a torture rack and interrogated. The inquisitor signals one of the executioners to burn her with a red hot iron. We see him approaching with the smoking iron but the actual burning is offscreen as we only hear Maria’s painful screaming. After passing out, she is hung by her wrists and lowered into a hole down below. I only wish I had a better print of this; it’s never been available on either DVD or VHS. Sadly, one of the last films for the lovely star Montez, who was also branded in 1945’s Sudan. She suffered a heart attack and drowned in her bathtub less than a year later at the age of 39.
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