This is a really mysterious and intelligent suspense movie with drama , plot twists , well-paced , including decent scares with tense sequences especially in its final part , in a unexpected denouement , near of the end . It deals with Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) who checks into a hotel to find her husband , Army Lieutenant Paul (Frank Latimore) , who is going back from World War II. He is delayed and suddenly through the window her hotel room the confused Janet witnesses a killing . Unsettling , disturbing Janet goes into shock and the hotel doctor calls in prestigious psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) . To keep her from revealing what she knows , Cross convinces Paul to let him take her under observation at his sanitarium . There his lover, Nurse Jordan (Lynn Bari) , helps to keep going on her medication and drug addiction . Can There Janet must convince anyone that she is not insane earlier it's too late . He never dreamed what it would all lead to...and she didn't care !
It is a highly mysterious and cerebral thriller about a killer who realizes that his patient saw him murder his wife , being filled with thrills, intriguing events , plot twists , including an exciting conclusion in its ending part . From start to finish the complicated mystery, intrigue , thrills , and suspense result to be continuous . The picture is pretty well , although sometimes stagy and slow-moving , at times ; however is entertaining for continuous suspense . Hitchcock-style psychological thriller , being surprisingly good and compellingly shot . The original as well entertaining premise is overspread across the movie, but not totally satisfactory , adding some brief conventional pitfalls . The main cast is frankly fine , with charismatic performance all around , as the excellent protagonists: Vincent Price as the cunning doctor , Frank Latimore as the innocent husband , Anabel Shaw as the emotionally fragile spouse and Lynn Bari as the selfish and domineering nurse and lover . Special mention for Vincent Price who had a long and noted career . Vincent is excellent as master of menace , the picture is specifically devoted to the particular talents of Price . His first fling with the horror genre was ¨Dragonwyck¨ (1946), a Gothic melodrama . With ¨House of Wax¨ (1953) , Vincent fine-tuned the character type he had established in Dragonwyck, adding both pathos and comic elements to the role of a maniacal sculptor . In 1952, Vincent joined the national touring company of 'Don Juan in Hell' in which he was cast as the devil. Acting under the direction of Charles Laughton and accompanied by noted thespians Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead, he later recalled this as one of his "greatest theatrical excitements". The majority of his subsequent films were decidedly low-budget affairs in which the star tended to be the sole mitigating factor: ¨The Mad Magician¨ (1954), ¨The Fly¨(1958) and its sequel , ¨House of the Haunted Hill¨ (1959), the absurd ¨The Tingler¨ (1959) and ¨The Bat¨ (1959). Vincent played various famous film for Roger Corman as ¨The masque of Red Death¨, Horror tales¨ , ¨The Pit and the Pendulum¨, and he continued to play various films in similar style shot at England as ¨Theatre of blood¨ , ¨Madhouse¨ , ¨Abominable Dr Phibes¨ and the following ¨Dr Phibes rises again¨ .
This Shock 1946 contains a sinister and mysterious atmosphere in black and white with plenty of lights and shades by cameraman Joseph MacDonald. As well as thrilling and moving musical score by David Buttolph. The motion picture was well directed by Alfred L Werker , being decently made and competently realized . Alfred was a little known Hollywwod craftsman who directed some nice films , such as : ¨Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Whispering Ghosts , Kidnapped , Heartbreak, The Mad Martindales , Moon Over Her Shoulder , Sealed Cargo, The Last of the Duanes , Double Cross Roads , Chasing Through Europe, Blue Skies ,Kit Carson¨. Rating : 6.5/10. Above average. Worthwhile watching . The movie will appeal to Vincent Price fans.
It is a highly mysterious and cerebral thriller about a killer who realizes that his patient saw him murder his wife , being filled with thrills, intriguing events , plot twists , including an exciting conclusion in its ending part . From start to finish the complicated mystery, intrigue , thrills , and suspense result to be continuous . The picture is pretty well , although sometimes stagy and slow-moving , at times ; however is entertaining for continuous suspense . Hitchcock-style psychological thriller , being surprisingly good and compellingly shot . The original as well entertaining premise is overspread across the movie, but not totally satisfactory , adding some brief conventional pitfalls . The main cast is frankly fine , with charismatic performance all around , as the excellent protagonists: Vincent Price as the cunning doctor , Frank Latimore as the innocent husband , Anabel Shaw as the emotionally fragile spouse and Lynn Bari as the selfish and domineering nurse and lover . Special mention for Vincent Price who had a long and noted career . Vincent is excellent as master of menace , the picture is specifically devoted to the particular talents of Price . His first fling with the horror genre was ¨Dragonwyck¨ (1946), a Gothic melodrama . With ¨House of Wax¨ (1953) , Vincent fine-tuned the character type he had established in Dragonwyck, adding both pathos and comic elements to the role of a maniacal sculptor . In 1952, Vincent joined the national touring company of 'Don Juan in Hell' in which he was cast as the devil. Acting under the direction of Charles Laughton and accompanied by noted thespians Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead, he later recalled this as one of his "greatest theatrical excitements". The majority of his subsequent films were decidedly low-budget affairs in which the star tended to be the sole mitigating factor: ¨The Mad Magician¨ (1954), ¨The Fly¨(1958) and its sequel , ¨House of the Haunted Hill¨ (1959), the absurd ¨The Tingler¨ (1959) and ¨The Bat¨ (1959). Vincent played various famous film for Roger Corman as ¨The masque of Red Death¨, Horror tales¨ , ¨The Pit and the Pendulum¨, and he continued to play various films in similar style shot at England as ¨Theatre of blood¨ , ¨Madhouse¨ , ¨Abominable Dr Phibes¨ and the following ¨Dr Phibes rises again¨ .
This Shock 1946 contains a sinister and mysterious atmosphere in black and white with plenty of lights and shades by cameraman Joseph MacDonald. As well as thrilling and moving musical score by David Buttolph. The motion picture was well directed by Alfred L Werker , being decently made and competently realized . Alfred was a little known Hollywwod craftsman who directed some nice films , such as : ¨Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Whispering Ghosts , Kidnapped , Heartbreak, The Mad Martindales , Moon Over Her Shoulder , Sealed Cargo, The Last of the Duanes , Double Cross Roads , Chasing Through Europe, Blue Skies ,Kit Carson¨. Rating : 6.5/10. Above average. Worthwhile watching . The movie will appeal to Vincent Price fans.