

A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.
Acting
Karloff's tortured dignity elevating bargain-bin material.
Direction
Dmytryk's pre-blacklist shadows doing heavy lifting.

Director
Edward Dmytryk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Columbia Pictures rushed this into production to capitalize on Karloff's Universal horror fame, slapping together a script from an unpublished story in mere weeks.
This was Edward Dmytryk's final B-picture before his controversial HUAC testimony and Hollywood Ten blacklisting temporarily derailed his career.