Fred Koenekamp's slick inky photography is the one element in the correct key for this Thirties-style sci-fi story about a humanitarian scientist "playing God" in the laboratory of his secluded country house. On the way to an appallingly messy ending, the movie shows not the slightest interest in its own premise. Rather than hypothesize on the intellectual, emotional, and moral growth of a test-tube Galatea -- a girl raised to adulthood insulated from all environmental influence -- the movie falls back on experimental mishaps to account for her superhuman learning capacity, her drug dependency, and her homicidal urges. With Rock Hudson, Barbara Carreras; directed by Ralph Nelson. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd