Madalena (Thriller)

Madalena (Luciana Paluzzi) was the antagonist in the 1962 episode "Flowers of Evil" for the TV series "Thriller".
At the beginning of the episode, we see the lovely Madalena reading in a study when she is terrified to have a skeleton laugh evily and change into her dead husband. Madalena beats the skeleton breaking it into many pieces.
We soon learn that she was responsible for his death along with her lover, Arno Lunt (Kevin Hagen). After dipping him in acid, they attempt to sell the skeleton to a local university, but the skeleton is cursed, and always comes back to them.
When the Academy President Maurice Reynard (Jack Weston) develops an attraction to Madalena. However, he begins to become suspicious when the skeleton and the missing husband both have arm injuries. As a result, she murders him and there are now two skeletons to dispose of.
Madalena then plans on killing her lover to get rid of loose ends. However, the boyfriend figures out that she plans on running away. Madalena is strangled to death by Arno, and he carries her to the lab where the two other skeletons are residing. He drinks to her and the skeltons, and reveals that they will all be destroyed the following day. However, the wine he drinks had been poisoned by Madalena, and she seems to have the last laugh when Arno dies.
==Trivia==
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Contessa Juliana Giotto-Borgini in the 1964 movie ‘Muscle Beach Party’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Angela in the 1965 episode "The Four-Steps Affair" for the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as the evil Fiona Volpe in the 1965 James Bond film, "Thunderball".
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Lisa in the 1968 film ‘A Black Veil For Lisa’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Anna Carrasco in the 1969 film ‘The Forgotten Pistolero’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Natalie Mendoza in the 1969 film ‘99 Women’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Toni Lombardo in the 1972 blaxpoitation film ‘Black Gunn’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Lady Alexander in the 1972 film ‘Tragic Ceremony’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Rosa in the 1974 film ‘La Sbandata’.
*Luciana Paluzzi appeared as Jole Scarpa in the 1975 film ‘The Sensuous Nurse’.
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