The Thing That Couldn't Die

Introducing characters and premise, Peggy Converse, James Anderson and Charles Horvath watch as Carolyn Kearney (as "Jessica") divines, skeptical Andra Martin, William Reynolds and Jeffrey Stone riding up, weirdness ensuing on the Universal back-lot, in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1958.

Suddenly nasty ranch-hand Boyd (James Anderson, who played the assault victim's father in To Kill A Mockingbird) tricks dunce Mike (Charles Horvath) into opening the mysterious chest, and menaces clairvoyant Jessica (Carolyn Kearney), in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1962.

Digging on a spot found by her maybe-psychic niece, rancher Flavia (Peggy Converse) instructs employees Boyd and Mike (James Anderson, Charles Horvath) who find a chest scholar Gordon (William Reynolds) connects, pretty much correctly, to history, in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1958.

Water-witch Jessica (Carolyn Kearney) is persuaded by academic Gordon (William Reynolds), who's more interested in the ancient chest found that night, to look for Mike (Charles Horvath), who has disappeared with its weird contents (Robin Hughes), in The Thing That Couldn't Die, 1958.