Scared to Death
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80% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Mystery, Thriller Music director Carl Hoefle Language English | 3.9/10 IMDb Director Christy Cabanne Initial DVD release February 18, 2003 Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 1, 1947 (1947-02-01) Based on play Murder on the Operating Table by Frank Orsino Writer Walter Abbott (original story), Walter Abbott (screenplay) Cast Bela Lugosi (Prof Leonide), George Zucco (Dr. Josef Van Ee), Nat Pendleton (Bill 'Bull' Raymond), Molly Lamont (Laura Van Ee), Joyce Compton (Jane Cornell), Gladys Blake (Lilly Beth)Similar movies Tales of Terror , The She-Creature , The Undead , Horrors of the Black Museum , Fright , Creature of Destruction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scared to death 1947 full movie stars bela lugosi george zucco molly lamont
Scared to Death is a 1947 thriller film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Bela Lugosi. The picture was filmed in Cinecolor. The film is historically important as the only color film in which Bela Lugosi has a starring role.
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- Scared to death 1947 full movie stars bela lugosi george zucco molly lamont
- Scared to death 1947 bela lugosi in color
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Legacy
- References
Scared to death 1947 bela lugosi in color
Plot
The film opens with the disclosure by morgue examiners that a beautiful woman has literally died of fright. The plot reveals how she reached the fatal stage of terror.
The woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage (Bela Lugosi) identified as the doctor's cousin who had been a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf (Angelo Rossitto).
After it is apparent that the wife is terrified of the foreigners, it is disclosed that she is the former wife and stage partner of a Paris magician known as René, who was believed to have been shot by the Nazis. Attempts to draw a confession that she had betrayed her magician husband and had collaborated with the Nazis led to the use of a device employing a death mask of the supposedly dead patriot, which literally frightens her to death.
Although the young newspaperman hero and his sweetheart guess the answer to the story, they allow the diagnosis "scared to death" to stand.
Cast
Production
The film was based on a one-act play which in turn was based on a 1933 murder case involving Dr. Alice Wynekoop.
Legacy
The film was featured in an episode of Deadly Cinema.
References
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