In her own cabin, she was viciously hacked with a machete(# 15 death)(off-screen) as blood splattered everywhere (seen later), and her body was thrown through a glass window.Jaquith (Claude Rains), the "foremost psychiatrist of the whole country." A skeptical Mrs.Vale contends that she has been reluctantly included in the discussion of her middle-aged daughter Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) who, according to her "is no more ill than a moulting canary.It is a taut, fast-moving (at a brisk 80 minutes) and vivid film that set the genre""s standards and launched the entire popular film type.(He kissed her) I wish you could ell me there""d been no other men" - she responded: "I wish I could ""Doc"", but five years in China is a long time.[Note: Some have wrongly claimed that the similar filmCongo Maisie (1940)starring Ann Sothern, based on Wilson Collison""s 1934 novelCongo Landing, was a remake.