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
Boris Karloff
Dr. Julian Blair
Richard Fiske
Dr. Richard Sayles
Amanda Duff
Anne Blair
Anne Revere
Mrs. Walters
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Marcy
Walter Baldwin
Seth Marcy
Kenneth MacDonald
Sheriff Ed Willis
Shirley Warde
Helen Blair
Cy Schindell
Karl
Ernie Adams
Elam
Lester Allen
Dr. Van Den
Wheaton Chambers
Dr. Sanders
Eddie Kane
Professor Walt
Erwin Kalser
Professor Kent
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rushed this into production to capitalize on Karloff's Universal horror fame, slapping together a script from an unpublished story in mere weeks.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.
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