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Calling Dr. Death  (1943)


Foregoing the trademark creaking door opening of radio’s Inner Sanctum Mysteries in favor of a floating head attesting that “Yes—even you, without knowing, can commit murder!” the psychological terror of the Inner Sanctum carries over to Universal’s film adaptation, in which neurologist Mark Steele (Lon Chaney Jr.), after blacking out, finds his adulterous wife murdered and himself the prime suspect.

35mm, b/w, 63 min.  Production: Universal Pictures Company, Inc.  Distribution: Universal Pictures Company, Inc.  Director: Reginald LeBorg.  Screenwriter: Edward Dein.  Cinematographer: Virgil Miller.  Editor: Norman A. Cerf.  With: Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce, Ramsay Ames.