Scared to Death

Scared to Death

18/12/1946 1h 8m 4.2/10

Overview

A 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 identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...

Director

Christy Cabanne

Top Billed Cast

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Prof Leonide

Nat Pendleton

Nat Pendleton

Bill 'Bull' Raymond

George Zucco

George Zucco

Dr. Josef Van Ee

Joyce Compton

Joyce Compton

Jane Cornell

Molly Lamont

Molly Lamont

Laura Van Ee

Gladys Blake

Gladys Blake

Lilly Beth

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/7/2022

4/10

It's only an hour long, but this still manages to involve a couple of the worst performances I've seen in a long, long time. Bela Lugosi and George Zucco - who can normally be relied upon to deliver well enough in these short horror/thriller features are just not on form together at all here. The dialogue is unsure in what genre the film wants to sit - a suspenseful thriller with the odd bit of comedy, or a comedic thriller with the odd, well, thrill. It appears to, reluctantly, settle for the latter but by then the somewhat irrelevant story of a murdered woman who relates the events leading up to the crime no longer really matters. It has way too many daft sub-plots and by the time we do approach the end you've almost forgotten what/who or, more importantly - why?

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