Inner Sanctum

9/25/2014

Any more news about the gal who had her heart manicured? Inner Sanctum is directed by Lew Landers and written by Jerome T. Gollard. It stars Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes, Dale Belding, Billy House, Fritz Leiber, Nana Bryant and Lee Patrick. Music is by Leon Klatzkin and cinematography by Allen G. Siegler. A psychic tells a woman, Marie Kembar (Eve Miller), a story on board a train. He tells of a man, Harold Dunlap (Russell), who after killing a woman makes his way into town and finds he can't leave after a flood renders all residents confined to the area. Taking lodgings in a boarding house, Dunlap finds he is sharing a room with the only witness to his crime... Clocking in at just over an hour in length, Inner Sanctum is very much in the vein of a quintessential "B" programm

7/9/2022

Charles Russell is "Harold Dunlap" who has gone into hiding in a rural boarding house after accidentally killing his fiancée on a railway platform. He soon discovers that the son of one of the boarders "Mike" (Dale Belding) saw him at the station and as the boy begins to put two and two together, "Dunlap" starts to panic. At just about an hour, it moves along well enough with just the boy and the killer holding it together; the other cast are rather annoying (particularly the boy's mother - Lee Patrick, and the landlady - Nana Bryant). Fritz Leiber has quite a curious duo of rather prophetic cameos too.