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A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.
Lon Chaney Jr.
- Alex Gregor
- (as Lon Chaney)
- …
Eddie Acuff
- Reporter in Hallway
- (uncredited)
Polly Bailey
- Older Lady in Audience
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Bald Man in Audience
- (uncredited)
Eddie Bruce
- Man in Audience
- (uncredited)
Jan Bryant
- Teenage Girl in Audience
- (uncredited)
Pauline Drake
- Mabel, the Drunk's date
- (uncredited)
Helena Phillips Evans
- Woman in Audience
- (uncredited)
William Haade
- Policeman on Dock
- (uncredited)
Leyland Hodgson
- Doctor from Audience
- (uncredited)
David Hoffman
- The Spirit of the Inner Sanctum
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFourth of the six INNER SANCTUM features, shot June 19-July 1, 1944, and released June 29, 1945, on a double bill with "The Jungle Captive, " both copyrighted 1944.
- GoofsWhen Rudi throws the second knife at Nina it sticks in the pillar by her head. When she turns to run up the stairs the knife is no longer there.
- Quotes
Alex Gregor: I killed that man... killed him with my eyes...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Svengoolie: The Frozen Ghost (2016)
Featured review
Eyes that can kill?
Right in the beginning it seems to be the same old story with spiritualists and fake mediums: 'Gregor the Great' (Lon Chaney Jr.) hypnotizes his beautiful medium Maura (Evelyn Ankers) during his obviously quite successful radio broadcast to read the thoughts of some of the people in the audience. She evades difficult questions, and so a drunkard starts grumbling that it's all a phony - and Gregor accepts the 'challenge', invites him up to the stage and tries to hypnotize him... and the man drops dead!
From now on, although the autopsy proves that the alcoholic died of a perfectly natural heart failure, Gregor is absolutely convinced that he killed the man: he'd wished him dead because he threatened to spoil his radio broadcast, and then he'd hypnotized him and killed him that way - nobody, not even Maura, his fiancée, can get that obsession out of his mind. So his manager George suggests that he should spend some time at Mme. Monet's Wax Museum, a nice, secluded place - with murder scenes made out of wax all around, and a VERY weird young artist, a former plastic surgeon, who talks to the wax figures and is himself obsessed by Mme. Monet's pretty young niece Nina...
This fourth one of the six movies made from the hugely successful radio program "Inner Sanctum" certainly IS scary, a mixture of a murder mystery and a horror movie (Universal Studios were masters at that...); the cast is quite good, Lon Chaney Jr. is once more teamed with Evelyn Ankers (they co-starred in eight movies altogether), and once more seems doomed by a strange kind of fate to do bad, like in "The Wolf Man"... Although "The Frozen Ghost" is nothing too inventive, it's QUITE a treat for fans of the genre!
From now on, although the autopsy proves that the alcoholic died of a perfectly natural heart failure, Gregor is absolutely convinced that he killed the man: he'd wished him dead because he threatened to spoil his radio broadcast, and then he'd hypnotized him and killed him that way - nobody, not even Maura, his fiancée, can get that obsession out of his mind. So his manager George suggests that he should spend some time at Mme. Monet's Wax Museum, a nice, secluded place - with murder scenes made out of wax all around, and a VERY weird young artist, a former plastic surgeon, who talks to the wax figures and is himself obsessed by Mme. Monet's pretty young niece Nina...
This fourth one of the six movies made from the hugely successful radio program "Inner Sanctum" certainly IS scary, a mixture of a murder mystery and a horror movie (Universal Studios were masters at that...); the cast is quite good, Lon Chaney Jr. is once more teamed with Evelyn Ankers (they co-starred in eight movies altogether), and once more seems doomed by a strange kind of fate to do bad, like in "The Wolf Man"... Although "The Frozen Ghost" is nothing too inventive, it's QUITE a treat for fans of the genre!
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- binapiraeus
- Apr 4, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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