#the inner sanctum mysteries were a hugely popular run of creepy radio dramas that ran from 1941 to 1952‚ spinning off into a successful
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Calling Dr. Death (1943)
"You know, Doctor, it isn't death that frightens men. It's waiting. Anticipation. Your conscience, haunting you in your sleep, in your dreams."
#inner sanctum mysteries#calling dr. death#1943#american cinema#lon chaney jr.#reginald le borg#edward dein#lon chaney jr#patricia morison#j. carrol naish#david bruce#ramsay ames#fay helm#holmes herbert#alec craig#charles wagenheim#lisa golm#frederick giermann#mary hale#the inner sanctum mysteries were a hugely popular run of creepy radio dramas that ran from 1941 to 1952‚ spinning off into a successful#series of novels; in '43 Universal bought the rights to the name only‚ and set about churning out a series of cheapy dark thrillers all#starring human teddy bear Lon Chaney jr. this is the first‚ and it's honestly just a great time. poor Lon has a horrible wife and a doting#assistant‚ and he works as a therapist hypnotist (?) who wakes his patients by slapping them in the face (??). cue some memory loss hijinks#and a murder he may or may not be guilty of... there's little onscreen horror but this still has a decidedly darker bent than many of the#horror b movies the studio were putting out (the description of the murder is toe curlingly nasty) and of course poor Lon suffers terribly#as he always seemed to (cinema's first real poor little meow meow?). add in an investigating cop who takes the case to the point of#persecution and some fun visual flair (at one point in a dream sequence the streets literally close in on a character) and you have the#best kind of grade A ham nonsense that i just kind of love for some reason
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