Overview
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
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DirectorReginald Le Borg
WriterBrenda Weisberg
Cast
Lon Chaney Jr.
Prof. Norman Reed
Anne Gwynne
Paula Clayton Reed
Evelyn Ankers
Illona Carr
Ralph Morgan
Prof. Millard Sawtelle
Elisabeth Risdon
Dean Grace Gunnison
Lois Collier
Margaret Mercer
Harry Hayden
Dean Septimus Carr
Elizabeth Russell
Evelyn Sawtelle
Phil Brown
David Jennings
Kay Harding
Student
Gertrude Astor
Party Guest (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
Party Guest (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Party Guest (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
The Carpenter (uncredited)
David Hoffman
The Spirit of the Inner Sanctum (uncredited)
William Hudson
Second Gossiping Male Student (uncredited)
Milburn Stone
Part of Inner Sanctum Mysteries Collection
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Keywords
suicidejealousybased on novel or booksuperstitionprofessorvoodoodeceptionwitchcraftinner sanctumtropical islandpsychotronic
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Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 4, 2026