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| Title: CALLING DR. DEATH Year: 1943 Rating: **1/2 |
Judging by the name alone, Universal's INNER SANCTUM movies seems perfect for a kind of horror/thriller that's not much different than their tightly-wound, atmospheric monster movies...
Including THE WOLF MAN starring Lon Chaney Jr himself, a clunky big lug of an actor who's horribly miscast here as a high-class shrink whose cheating wife (with a BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN hairstyle) gets mysteriously murdered...
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| Patricia Morrison and Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH |
An annoying device of Chaney's whispering narration takes away from what could have been an otherwise nifty expository-driven potboiler; but token investigating lawman J. Carrol Naish's scenes with Chaney are pretty decent...
As is much-too-perfect secretary Patricia Morrison's 11th hour villainous hypnotic conversation (featuring creatively dark-lit darkroom sequences resembling a spooky seance), ultimately making CALLING DR. DEATH more of a third-rate film-noir-potboiler that, despite lacking both thrills and chills, passing the time decently.
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| Lon Chaney Jr. and J. Carrol Naish in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Ramsay Ames in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Patricia Morrison in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Mary Hale in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Lon Chaney Jr. and Pamela Morrison in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Mary Hale and Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Mary Hale and Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Mary Hale and Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Mary Hale and Lon Chaney Jr. in CALLING DR. DEATH with Patricia Morrison |
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| Pamela Morrison in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Pamela Morrison in CALLING DR. DEATH |
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| Pamela Morrison in CALLING DR. DEATH and J. Carrol Naish |
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