Doris Page

Doris Page is the main protagonist of the 1963 thriller film The Sadist (also known as Sweet Baby Charlie or Profile of Terror). She is a school teacher who, along with her two colleagues Carl and Ed, gets held at gunpoint by a bloodthirsty serial killer named Charles Tibbs and his deranged girlfriend Judy Bradshaw.
Doris is the only one that manages to survive the encounter (including Charles and Judy, who both die). Thus, in theory, making her an early example of the 'Final Girl' trope.
She was portrayed by late Helen Hovey.
== Biography ==
Doris Page, together with her colleagues Ed Stiles and Carl Oliver, are on their way to a baseball game as their car breaks down near an old gas station/car junkyard. They search for the owner or anyone else working there but find no one. Ed starts to fix the car's motor with parts from another car on the junkyard. Suddenly, Doris screams as she sees two strangers with guns appearing. The man threatens Ed to continue fixing the car, tells them he and his girlfriend are going away with it. He plays with his gun near Doris' face and steals Mr. Oliver's wallet. In it he finds their tickets to the baseball game and rips them apart. Then he punches Carl twice in the head with the gun which makes him bleed. Doris tries to care for his wounds while Ed continue fixing the car. She pleads with the man to let her give Ed some water. He follows her where he rips her dress, punches her face down to the earth multiple times and steals her earrings which he gives to his girlfriend Judy. Doris walks back to her companions and treats Carl's wounds. They figure out that the man holding them hostage is the infamous murderer Charles Tibbs. 
After a moment of silence Charles says that when he finishes his soda he'll shoot Carl. Carl pleads for his life and begs Doris and Ed for help but they're too scared to do anything. Charles shoots Carl in the head and Doris cries and screams at Charles calling him a monster. Ed tries to talk with Charles and convinces him to let them live for a little longer to fix the car. Doris, starting to lose it, babbles on about police coming to save them. Ed tries to talk her out of it. Yet, two police officers actually arrive. They don't know that Charles and Judy are killers and Charlie manages to lure them long enough so he can shoot them. Charles gives Ed an ultimatum, i he doesn't fix the car in 15 minutes they die. After a few failed plans to escape and subdue Charlie and Judy, Ed sprays gasoline in Charles' eyes temporarily blinding him. Ed flees. During Charles panic Doris fights Judy trying to take her gun, but fails to do so. Luckily, she manages to run away and hide. Being temporarily blind Charles sees someone running at him and shoots. When he gets his vision back he sees he shot Judy. Charlie mourns her death and screams like an animal. Doris sees the two dead owners of the car junkyard and screams, which is heard by Charles. He tries to get her but decides to go after Ed instead. Doris runs away out into the boonies. Back at the gas station Charles manages to kill Ed and sadistically shoots him multiple times. He takes the car and decides to drive after Doris. Doris sees the car and thinks it's Ed coming to rescue her. But she soon figures out that it's Charlies and tries to evade him. After a long chase Charles falls down into a snake pit and gets bitten to death by rattlesnakes with Doris screaming and laughing. Doris runs back to the car where she hears the baseball game they were going to playing on the radio. She listens for awhile and then leaves. The film ends with the traumatized Doris Page, being the only survivor, wandering along the trail into the desert.
==Personality==
Doris Page works as a high school math teacher and is nicknamed "Miss Ice Bucket" by her students. She is sophisticated, self-controlled, virginal, innocent and responsible. She comes of as prude, stuffy and a little stuck-up. Doris seems to have a crush on fellow school teacher Ed Stiles, and depends on him saving the situation when they are held at gunpoint by Charles Tibbs and Judy Bradshaw. She is largely depicted as a damsel, however she's not afraid of speaking up against Charles, saying he's cruel and inhuman as well as calling him dirt and an animal. Also, she tries to fight Judy when Ed sprays Charlie with gasoline. All around Doris Page is a "goody two-shoes" damsel who ultimately is the only one that survives.
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