A psychological thriller by Frank DeFelita; starring Victor Jory and Don Hamner. '50s B sci-fi/horror. Two scientists stationed for a long period in the sweltering remote Amazon mentally torture each other for amusement.Love the story, acting and props--and the old ads with old prices, from back in the day when they had to give you a segue and an excuse to get you to watch an ad. I think I might have to watch all these tightly packed vignettes. Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are fun to watch, but those and other carnivorous plants such as sundews and pitcher plants are becoming scarce in North America. If you want a pet that's easier to care for than a goldfish, this might be a good choice for you--but please make sure your hungry little monster is legally grown or collected, and not poached from a preserve. And don't let it get too big, or else you might have the kind of problem people had in this story. Maybe you can make it a vegetarian?Oh--and P.S.: don't eat mushrooms picked by a crazy guy who hates you, out in the jungle.

Jory was such a class act, working with state of the art puppets as if they were CGI of today, you got to hand it to live TV to make all of this happen real time. No wonder they took as many as two weeks between episodes--who could do a 23 minute play seamlessly like this. Good character study, but I wish the letter would have been from Emily, and said something like "This is my brother, he's selfish and sadistic, but if you can tame him, you can come home to me welcome." Now THAT would have been ironic.But as it was, --GREAT!

Another ep comprised mostly of filler dialogue. The story is not about the flower at all, just an argument between two selfish clods. The actors ham it up to max, which is good, and the ending ....uh.....sates the appetite...???Or you can watch Little Shop of Horrors (1960) which focuses more on the plant, but plays out pretty much the same.Little Shop of Horrors (1986) is easier to sit through with the songs and music, and has a bona-fide plotline with a real conclusion.