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| Year: | 1942 |
| Rating: | 6.1(237) |
| Listed in: | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Ford Beebe |
| Actors: | Bela Lugosi Lionel Atwill Leif Erickson Ralph Morgan Don Porter Irene Hervey |
| "What kind of a thing is it?" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Ford Beebe | |
| Actors | |
| Bela Lugosi | as Rolf |
| Lionel Atwill | as Dr. King |
| Leif Erickson | as Laurie |
| Ralph Morgan | as Kurt Ingston |
| Don Porter | as Dick Baldwin |
| Nils Asther | as Agor Singh |
| Frank Reicher | as Dr. Timmons |
| Francis Pierlot | as Dr. Phipps |
| Robert Homans | as Constable Cap Beggs |
| Eddy Waller | as Jed Harmon |
| Cyril Delevanti | as Torque |
| Actresses | |
| Irene Hervey | as Dr. Lynn Harper |
| Fay Helm | as Margaret Ingston |
| Doris Lloyd | as Sarah Judd |
| Janet Shaw | as Milly Carson |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | July 1942 - |
| Plot: | Dr. Lynn Harper, psychologist, has been called out to the old Ingston Mansion, a dark and mysterious place with a very bad reputation, in order to make an assessment of the sanity of Margaret Ingston, daughter of patriarch Kurt Ingston. She claims to be sane, but she is clearly very disturbed; we can't be certain, although the doctor gives her a clean bill of health. But then Dick Baldwin shows up on the scene, just when Dr. Lynne has been receiving thinly veiled threats from the inhabitants of the house. He's our hero. Three medical doctors have been invited out to the mansion as well, Dr. Timmons, Dr. Phipps and the sleazy Dr. King (Lionel Atwill). One by one the doctors are mysteriously murdered. Dick Baldwin must figure out who is doing the killings, and he must do so before whoever it is can kill his new love interest, Dr. Lynne Harper. But the only one he can trust is Kurt Ingston himself, since Ingston has no legs and can't have perpetrated these murders. Is it sinister Rolf, the butler, or Laurie, the sex crazed and sociopathic chauffeur, or Agor Singh, the Hindu Yogi with his strange ways? And of course, Lynne might be wrong, Margaret may be very insane, and she might be the culprit. |
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Goofs
| Continuity: Dick's pipe when he and Dr Harker are driving to the mansion. |
Quotes
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Sarah Judd: [trapped in burning room] Unlock that door you fool! Do you want to die? Margaret Ingston: Yes! You and Kurt don't deserve to live, and I don't want to! Margaret Ingston: How many of us are sane? You wouldn't know, but I shall soon. Milly Carson: [reacting to Laurie's stopping the car by the side of a deserted road] What's this for - as if I didn't know? Laurie: How is it dames always know what's on a guy's mind before he knows himself? Kurt Ingston: When a person questions her own sanity, it's a good sign she's not far from normal. Dick Baldwin, Agor Singh: How is that the blood didn't dematerialize with the rest? Agor Singh: There are certain details in the process that we are not allowed to explain to the uninitiated. Dr. Lynne Harper: My study of the mind has convinced me how little we know of its powers. Dick Baldwin: [discussing the murders] It all seemed to start with that skeleton of Agor Singh's. Const. Cap Beggs: You know, that's good enough for me. I'm gonna arrest that Hindu if I never see the back of my neck. [last lines] Agor Singh: A little knowledge of the occult is dangerous. Unless it's used for good, disaster will follow its wake. That is Cosmic Law! |
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