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14. Curiosity Killed

A bitter elderly woman learns that her husband and a lay back couple are hiding a youth potion from her while camping in the wilderness.

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Jack ( Kevin McCarthy ) and Cynthia ( Margot Kidder ), an elderly couple who hate each other, are camping in the woods with fellow elderly couple Harry and Lucille ( J. A. Preston and Madge Sinclair ), who are more tolerable of one another. Harry, a retired Marine whom Jack had saved during Guadalcanal, wishes to repay Jack by means of Lucille, who is a voodoo priestess. Lucille reveals the reason behind the camping trip, she has been tending to a rare flower that blooms by moonlight, which is what she needs to make a potion that will make them all young and attractive. Jack also attempts to keep the secret from the bitter and overbearing Cynthia, who wants to use it for her own means.

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