The Frozen Ghost

The Frozen Ghost 1945 is a mystery film starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers, and directed by Harold Young. It is the fourth of the six Inner Sanctum mystery films.

George Keene, who is Alexs manager, tries to protect Alex from bad publicity and arranges for Alex to work for an old friend of Georges, Mme Valerie Monet Tala Birell. She is the owner of a wax museum and Alex is hired to work there as a lecturer. Valeries niece, Nina Coudreau Elena Verdugo, is also working at the museum, and they are both very excited to have a man with Alexs gifts working with them. In addition to these two ladies there is also the quite disturbed former plastic surgeon Rudi Poldan Martin Kosleck on the payroll, working as a sculptor. This odd physician becomes jealous of the attention given to Alex upon his arrival. Gregors former stage assistant and fiance, Maura Daniel Evelyn Ankers also starts pursuing him romantically.Jealousy spreads among the workers, infecting Valerie, who falsely accuses Alex of making advances to her niece Nina. Arguments ensue, ending with Valerie fainting and Alex leaving the museum in anger. Following a good nights sleep Alex returns to the museum to find that Valerie had disappeared without a trace. Police Inspector Brant Douglass Dumbrille suspects that Valerie has been murdered, with his suspicion directed towards Alex because he is the last person to have seen Valerie alive. ........

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