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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Anne Billson

Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!

Marthe Keller starred in Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora
Unconscionable extremes … Marthe Keller in Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy

10. The Wasp Woman (1959)

The ageing face of a cosmetics CEO (the tragic Susan Cabot in her final film role) is blamed for falling sales, so she injects herself with an experimental wasp enzyme and sheds 20 years in one weekend. Unfortunately, it also turns her into a homicidal wasp monster in this low-budget creature feature directed by the B-movie maestro Roger Corman.

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