Calling Dr. Death

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Audience Member Lon Chaney Jr. stars as psychiatrist Mark Steele, who is an amiable man with a loyal nurse named Stella(played by Patricia Morison). Unfortunately, he is married to a wild, mean, and unfaithful wife(played by Ramsay Ames) who refuses to divorce him. After a mysterious blackout one weekend, Dr. Steele has no memory, but is told by the police that his wife has been brutally murdered, and the Inspector on the Case(played by J. Carol Naish) doggedly pursues him, convinced of his guilt. The man she was having an affair with is caught, but did he do it, or someone else? Reasonably good film could have dispensed with the head-in-a-crystal ball routine, but acting is good(especially Naish in a role quite similar to later "Columbo"!) Not bad for a low budgeter. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member This is the first of the Inner Sanctum (popular book and especially radio series) Universal films and to me by far the best. At barely over an hour, it is a tight entertaining little murder mystery worthy of the best Hitchcock TV episodes. It has the creepy classic tropes you come looking for in an old classic mystery, including the stream of conscious voice overs, amnesia, hypnosis, murder, head in the bottle intro, and twist ending. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review bill t This Lon Chaney vehicle feels awfully tv movie of the weekish.. Maybe it was. This story of a doctor trying to find out whether he killed his wife just feels stilted and yes, ready for commercials. Not much of a revelation in the end if you have half a brain. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Murder mystery thriller with Lon Chaney Jr, J Carrol Naish and a cameo from Holmes Herbert. A diverting way to spend an hour and 2 minutes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member ok B movie fare from universal starring lon chaney jr Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Good Chaney yearn, but it's not just the door that creaks--A fun movie if you are a Universal horror fan!! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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