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Calling Dr. Death is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Reginald Le Borg released in USA on 17 december 1943 with Lon Chaney, Jr.

Calling Dr. Death (1943)

Calling Dr. Death
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Released in USA 17 december 1943
Length 1h3
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Horror,    Crime
Rating61% 3.053413.053413.053413.053413.05341

Calling Dr. Death (1943) is the first of the Universal Pictures Inner Sanctum mystery films. The "Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popular radio series and all of the films star Lon Chaney, Jr.. The movie stars Chaney, Jr. and Patricia Morison, and was directed by Reginald Le Borg. Chaney, Jr. plays a neurologist, Dr. Mark Steele, who loses memory of the past few days after learning that his wife has been brutally murdered. Aware of his wife's infidelity and believing he could be the killer, Steele asks his office nurse Stella Madden to help him recover his lost memories.

Synopsis

A respected neurologist, Dr. Mark Steele (Lon Chaney, Jr.) treats his patients successfully with hypnosis, but has troubles of his own from a marriage falling apart, that he cannot treat himself in the same way. His wife Maria (Ramsay Ames) is cheating on him on a regular basis, which is something Mark is well aware of. When Maria returns home one night in the early morning hours after a rendez-vous with her lover, Mark finally tells her that he has had enough and that he wants a divorce. Maria, who is leading a very comfortable life as a doctor's wife, refuses her consent to a divorce, and laughs at him as she does so. That night Mark has a dream about strangling his wife to death.

Actors

Lon Chaney, Jr.

(Dr. Mark Steel (as Lon Chaney))
Patricia Morison

(Stella Madden)
J. Carrol Naish

(Inspector Gregg)
David Bruce

(Robert 'Bob' Duval)
Ramsay Ames

(Maria Steele)
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