A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Acting
Phyllis Thaxter's two-for-one performance switches without warning.
Direction
Arch Oboler crams a feature's worth of Freud into 65 minutes.
Director
Arch Oboler
Phyllis Thaxter
Joan Alris Ellis
Edmund Gwenn
Dr. Bergson
Henry H. Daniels Jr.
Bob Arnold
Addison Richards
John Ellis
Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Ellis
Francis Pierlot
Dr. George Wilton
Sharon McManus
Small Girl
Gladys Blake
Glenda
Will Wright
Mr. Herkheimer
Stephen McNally
Eric Russell (as Horace McNally)
Oscar O'Shea
Capt. O'Malley
Minor Watson
Governor
Virginia Brissac
Martha--Governor's Wife
Audrey Totter
Karen (voice)
Harry Strang
Prison Guard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Arch Oboler was a radio horror legend who brought his 'Lights Out' sensibility to this B-picture, shooting it in just 12 days.
This film arrived the same year as Hitchcock's 'Spellbound,' when Hollywood was obsessed with psychoanalysis—though Oboler treats it with more skepticism than polish.
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