her he hid it in the garage to protect Jennifer, whom he believes may have hurt him. Jeffrey visits to Jennifer's apartment while Peggy and Mrs. Elliot watch from the driveway. After an audible scuffle, Jeffrey emerges from the apartment, covered in blood, rambling about how Jennifer fell onto a knife and was killed during the confrontation. Peggy attempts to phone police, but Mrs. Elliott cautions her from doing so. When Peggy subsequently enters Jennifer's apartment, she finds it empty. In the artist's loft, Peggy finds Jeffrey in a dissociated state, wearing a gown and makeup, holding a blond wig. When he approaches Peggy with a knife, Mrs. Elliott appears and shoots him to death. Mrs. Elliott proceeds to explain to Peggy that Jeffrey was obsessed with his sister, and that he murdered her years prior before encasing her corpse in one of his grandiose sculptures. After, Jeffrey would slip in and out of the alternate personality of his sister. Mrs. Elliott laments the situation, but tells Peggy that, as an old and lonely woman, she wanted to avoid her son being institutionalized, which would leave her alone. Peggy calmly picks up the phone and calls the police. Cast Bette Davis as Mrs. Elliott Ted Bessell as Jeffrey Elliot Sian Barbara Allen as Peggy Johns Christiane Schmidtmer as Jennifer Elliot Charles Drake as George Thornton Allan Arbus as Dr. Eugene Saks Tovah Feldshuh as Agnes Thornton Release Critical response Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times deemed the film a "routine shocker," noting that "writers Jimmy Sangster and Arthur Hoffe have come up with such silly, trite dialog and situations that it's too bad that director Gordon Hessler... didn't play their script for laughs." Film writer Jerry Roberts notes in Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors that the film is "a patchwork artifact of what filmmakers in the movie-of-the-week era considered the ingredients for concocting a Psycho-like thriller." Home media In October 2021, Kino Lorber released the film for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray. References External links Scream, Pretty Peggy at the Library of Congress 1973 television films 1973 films 1973 horror films 1970s mystery films American mystery films ABC Movie of the Week Films directed by Gordon Hessler Films scored by Robert Prince Films shot in Los Angeles American horror television films Cross-dressing in American films Films about dissociative identity disorder Films with screenplays by Jimmy Sangster 1970s