Greta (Endless Night)

Greta is a villainess in the 1972 adaptation of
Agatha Christie’s crime novel, Endless Night. She is played by the actress, Britt Ekland.
Greta is
friends with Ellie, a millionaire’s daughter who ran off with the chauffeur,
Michael. The couple live in an expensive and futuristic house on Gipsy’s Acre,
built from Ellie’s inheritance by a mysterious architect that Michael got to
know from a job in his former life. Ellie relies greatly on Greta to sort out
all sorts of things; in fact, she is basically running her life, and Ellie
praises her repeatedly for being very ‘efficient’. After Ellie had a riding
accident, Greta comes to live with them, much to Michael’s displeasure. He
doesn’t like how she takes decisions on Ellie’s, and his, behalf, and how she
intrudes into their marriage. Michael and Greta have a nasty argument in front
of party guests, after which Greta purports to leave the married couple alone.
Realising that Ellie is very distressed about this, Michael reluctantly makes
up with Greta.
While
Michael is away on a business trip, Ellie is found dead in the woods after she
went out riding again. As this is the second incident of the sort, no-one
suspects a suspicious death, but we soon learn that Michael and Greta have been
planning the marriage to the wealthy heiress and Ellie’s death all along. Michael
returns to the mansion to find Greta there. On the road up, he believes to see
Ellie, but he shakes off any thoughts as Greta receives him in what is now
their opulent property. The revealed villainess has adopted a new demeanour: her sober style has been replaced by that of a true femme fatale, and she now wears her red hair openly. The two lovers can finally drop their masks of the
mourning husband and friend, and reunite in lustful passion as they roll naked
over the floor. After they slaked their greedy lust, the evil couple celebrate
their victory with champagne. In the course of the evening, Michael gets second
thoughts. A picture in the mail that shows Greta and himself together proves that
someone is aware of their murderous conspiracy. Michael panics and accuses
Greta of being to blame for him losing everything now: Gipsy’s Acre, the house –
and Ellie. The self-assured Greta tells him to pull himself together and sleep
off his silly doubts. Michael, who is probably mentally unstable, loses his
nerve and attacks Greta. After chasing the terrified villainess around the
living room, he finally catches her and pins her down. Greta screams and squeals
in horror and frees herself once more, only to be cornered after a second
chase, with no chance to escape and no-one there to help her now. Her death is
off-screen, but we can assume that Michael strangles his ex-lover and
accomplice.
In the
following scene, Michael sits lazily on a revolving chair at the indoor
swimming pool. He has the negligee previously worn by Greta lying over his lap,
suggesting that he undressed her after killing her. He looks down on the dead villainess' 
naked body floating face down in the pool. Michael then uses a remote
control to close the lid upon her, thereby showing his contempt for his former mistress. Although Michael will be brought to justice and sentenced
to death at the end of the movie, it is the evil Greta who has probably met the
more gruesome punishment for their betrayal and crimes.
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Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:1970s
Category:Redhead
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Betrayer
Category:Fate: Deceased
Category:Demise: Strangled
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Category:Conspirator
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