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Summary

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.

Details

Release Date: June 1, 1945

Runtime: 61 minutes

Genres: Mystery, Crime

Rating: 6.3/10 (31 votes)


Inner Sanctum Mysteries Collection

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    Calling Dr. Death

    Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.

  • The Frozen Ghost

    The Frozen Ghost

    When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.

  • Dead Man's Eyes

    Dead Man's Eyes

    Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.

  • Weird Woman

    Weird Woman

    After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?

  • Pillow of Death

    Pillow of Death

    Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.

  • Strange Confession

    Strange Confession

    A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.


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Cast

  • Lon Chaney Jr.

    Lon Chaney Jr.

    Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great

  • Evelyn Ankers

    Evelyn Ankers

    Maura Daniel

  • Elena Verdugo

    Elena Verdugo

    Nina Coudreau

  • Martin Kosleck

    Martin Kosleck

    Rudi

  • Tala Birell

    Tala Birell

    Mme. Monet

  • Milburn Stone

    Milburn Stone

    George Keene

  • Douglass Dumbrille

    Douglass Dumbrille

    Inspector Brant

  • Arthur Hohl

    Arthur Hohl

    The Drunk in the Audience

  • Dennis Moore

    Dennis Moore

    Radio Announcer (uncredited)

  • Leyland Hodgson

    Leyland Hodgson

    Doctor in audience (uncredited)