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Yes, in the movie, she does fight crime in her bikini outfit. Some crazy scientist is grabbing wrestlers for their spinal fluid to make a gill man. Every villain needs a gill man. Now that I know about her, I'm sorry she never hooked up with Adam West's Batman. You can see a trailer on YouTube and grab a 27x40 poster on Amazon. Not that I ordered it or anything like that, of course.
Of course the original title, Night of the Demon, wasn't sensational enough for American distribution, so they went and spiced it up with the change to Curse of the Demon, while splicing out some minutes of the original running time, too, unwisely. This is an excellent supernatural horror that is brought home by the appearance of the demon (a hotly contested point to be sure), another Americanization, over the objections of director and writer Jacques Tourneur and Charles Bennett. For an engrossing read on the movie's production trials and tribulations, get Tony Earnshaw's book, Beating the Devil: The Making of the Night of the Demon.
I found out about this movie after reading Night Gallery: An After Hours Tour (which I highly recommend). Dark Intruder was the pilot for a potential series for television called The Black Cloak, produced by Jack Laird. Dailymotion is currently offering a slightly blurry copy for view, and it's well worth the time spent.
Here's the pressbook to whet your appetite. Bon appetite.
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