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.
Cast
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
Crew
Lew Landers
Director
David Boehm
Screenplay
Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story
Albert Akst
Editor
Charles J. Stumar
Director of Photography
Scott R. Beal
Assistant Director
Victor Noerdlinger
Assistant Director
Stanley Bergerman
Executive Producer
David Diamond
Associate Producer
Hazel Rogers
Hairstylist
Jack Pierce
Makeup Designer
Otto Lederer
Makeup Artist
John P. Fulton
Visual Effects
Clifford Vaughan
Original Music Composer
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
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