A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.
Barbara Jo Allen
- Louise Watkins
- (as Barbara Allen [Vera Vague])
Bobby Barber
- Bald Man in Library
- (uncredited)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Mickey Barnes - Copy Boy
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Elevator Operator
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- Librarian
- (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
- Police Officer at Train Station
- (uncredited)
Sam Harris
- Passerby
- (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
- Ticket Clerk
- (uncredited)
Douglas Kennedy
- Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
John Laing
- Intern
- (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
- Officer Riley
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaOne of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
- Quotes
Maurice Gretz: You're like all the other clever ones, clever until they meet a woman, and then they suddenly become fools.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Svengoolie: Night Monster (2015)
- SoundtracksAloha 'Oe
Music by Queen Liliuokalani
Featured review
A lot of good marred by one very big negative
Basil Rathbone is excellent as a sinister psychiatrist who marries women with money and then kills them. Martin Kosleck is also great as his equally evil sidekick/henchman. I enjoyed Ralph Morgan too. He's great. The rest of the cast ranges from adequate to insufferable (John Howard!). There are some nice visual touches here for a B programmer. There are also some interesting things going on with the story that are unfortunately muddied by the trappings of the time. For example, a depressed character tries to commit suicide in a particularly shocking scene. The reaction of her boyfriend, and basically the reaction the filmmakers want the viewers to have, is that "there's nothing wrong with her the love of a good man won't fix." This is a backwards message to begin with but when the "good man" in question is an aggressive, angry, self-centered jerk it really sours things. It's a movie about a guy who kills women for money and we're put in the position of liking HIM over the film's hero. I like parts of the movie more than the whole and that's largely because of John Howard's truly horrendous character. He's just the pits. Still, see it for Rathbone and the other positives I mentioned.
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- utgard14
- Apr 29, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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