Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce, Ramsay Ames
Directed by Reginald LeBorg
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A neurologist has a blackout over a weekend, after which he discovers his wife has been murdered, and he wonders if he's guilty of the crime.
The first of the Inner Sanctum movies, based on the popular radio series, which all starred Chaney as various professional men involved in murder or death, the picture is almost framed like a film noir, with shadowy photography by Virgil Miller, and distinctive imagery utilized during the hypnosis sequences. Although Chaney's acting in these pictures has largely been unheralded, he's good enough in his role here, and receives excellent support from Morison as his secretary and nurse, as well as Naish as the police inspector who keeps pestering him. I'd probably rank it second among the Inner Sanctum films, after Weird Woman, and found it professionally filmed and enjoyable to watch.
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