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Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.
Ernie Adams
- Elam
- (uncredited)
Lester Allen
- Dr. Van Den
- (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
- Dr. Sanders
- (uncredited)
Earl Crawford
- Johnson
- (uncredited)
Harrison Greene
- Mr. Booth, Bakery Proprietor
- (uncredited)
Erwin Kalser
- Professor Kent
- (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
- Professor Walt
- (uncredited)
George McKay
- Station Agent
- (uncredited)
Al Rhein
- Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaCompleted December 1940, released February 3, 1941.
- GoofsDr. Julian tells Mrs. Walters she had 10,000 volts pass through her body. Volts do not flow or pass, amps do.
- Quotes
Dr. Julian Blair: Anne dear, your mother is not dead, not really. She's come back to me!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood and the Stars: Monsters We've Known and Loved (1964)
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Kindly Dr. Revere (Boris Karloff) has found a way to record the brain waves of people. His loving wife is tragically killed in a car accident. Revere however gets a reading from his dead wife (he thinks) when alone in is lab. He becomes obsessed with trying to communicate with her beyond the grave. He ends up with a cruel conniving fake medium (Anne Revere) and some corpses borrowed from the nearby cemetery.
OK--the plot doesn't make a lick of sense. He does turn on the machine after his wife dies and he DOES get a message--but how can he know it's her? Why does he need to use other dead bodies to communicate with his wife? Why not dig up HER body and try it? Too many questions. The sets are threadbare (looks more like a PRC production than Columbia), talented character actress Revere gives out her worse performance, the silly narration doesn't work and it just completely derails at the end. Still Karloff is good (as always) and gives this junk a better performance than it deserves. He single handedly makes this an OK movie. It just isn't that scary. It does have a somewhat spooky scene where a maid is stuck in a room with a bunch of dead bodies but that's it. Minor but a must for Karloff fans.
OK--the plot doesn't make a lick of sense. He does turn on the machine after his wife dies and he DOES get a message--but how can he know it's her? Why does he need to use other dead bodies to communicate with his wife? Why not dig up HER body and try it? Too many questions. The sets are threadbare (looks more like a PRC production than Columbia), talented character actress Revere gives out her worse performance, the silly narration doesn't work and it just completely derails at the end. Still Karloff is good (as always) and gives this junk a better performance than it deserves. He single handedly makes this an OK movie. It just isn't that scary. It does have a somewhat spooky scene where a maid is stuck in a room with a bunch of dead bodies but that's it. Minor but a must for Karloff fans.
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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