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A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Language
Budget$115,000
Revenue --
English
Budget$115,000
Revenue --
Keywords
plastic surgery
revenge
serial killer
mad doctor
torture chamber
car accident
gothic romance
poe fanatic
mad surgeon
psychotic obsessions
obsessed with a woman
Casts

Boris Karloff
Edmond Bateman

Bela Lugosi
Dr. Richard Vollin

Lester Matthews
Dr. Jerry Holden

Irene Ware
Jean Thatcher

Samuel S. Hinds
Judge Thatcher

Spencer Charters
Col. Bertram Grant

Inez Courtney
Mary Burns

Ian Wolfe
Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns

Maidel Turner
Mrs. Grant
Raine Bennett
Poe (uncredited)

Al Ferguson
The Crook (uncredited)
Nina Golden
Dancer (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale
Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)

Arthur Hoyt
Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited)

Walter Miller
Bedside Dr. at Judge's Right (uncredited)

Bud Osborne
Policeman (uncredited)
Madeline Talcott
Bedside Nurse (uncredited)
Cyril Thornton
Dr. Vollin's Butler (uncredited)

Anne Darling
Autograph Hound
Crews
David Boehm
Screenplay

Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story

Lew Landers
Director
Clifford Vaughan
Original Music Composer
Charles J. Stumar
Director of Photography
Albert Akst
Editor

Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Stanley Bergerman
Executive Producer
Scott R. Beal
Assistant Director
Victor Noerdlinger
Assistant Director
David Diamond
Associate Producer
John P. Fulton
Visual Effects

Jack Pierce
Makeup Designer

Otto Lederer
Makeup Artist
Hazel Rogers
Hairstylist
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