A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Cast
Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin
Philip Coolidge
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith Evelyn
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl Hickman
David Morris
Pamela Lincoln
Lucy Stevens
Patricia Cutts
Isabel Stevens Chapin
William Castle
Prologue Host (uncredited)
Bob Gunderson
Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennon
Projectionist (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Pat Colby
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Amy Fields
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Clarence Straight
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Ernest Torrence
Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew
William Castle
Director, Producer
Robb White
Screenplay
Chester W. Schaeffer
Editor
Wilfrid M. Cline
Director of Photography
Herb Wallerstein
Assistant Director
Hazel Keats
Makeup Artist
Monty Westmore
Makeup Artist
John P. Livadary
Sound Supervisor
Harry D. Mills
Sound
Von Dexter
Original Music Composer
Milton Stumph
Set Decoration
Clarence Peet
Property Master
Phillip Bennett
Art Direction
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