Calling Dr. Death

Calling Dr. Death 1943 is the first of the Universal Pictures Inner Sanctum mystery films. The Inner Sanctum franchise originated with a popular radio series and all of the films star Lon Chaney, Jr.. The movie stars Chaney, Jr. and Patricia Morison, and was directed by Reginald Le Borg. Chaney, Jr. plays a neurologist, Dr. Mark Steele, who loses memory of the past few days after learning that his wife has been brutally murdered. Aware of his wifes infidelity and believing he could be the killer, Steele asks his office nurse Stella Madden to help him recover his lost memories.

When Maria goes away for the weekend, Mark decides to leave and gets into his car and drives off. Come Monday morning he wakes up in his office only to learn that he is suffering a mental blackout and that the memories of the weekend is missing. He is informed by the police that his wife has been murdered, and that her face was disfigured by some kind of acid. Mark begins to worry about not remembering the slightest thing about his own actions during the weekend.His worries increase after finding a button from his own jacket near where his wifes body was found. He starts suspecting that he himself has done off with her. His nurse, Stella Madden Patricia Morison tells him not to air his suspicions to the police until he knows more. The police goes on to arrest Marias lover, the architect Mr. Robert Duval David Bruce, for the murder. Inspector Gregg J. Carroll Naish, one of the detectives on the case still believes that Mark is the murderer. Mr. Duvals disabled wife Fay Helm pays Mark a visit, trying to convince him to help her prove that her husband is innocent. ........

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