The Tingler
Ghastly Beyond Belief!
- 1959
- Rated NR
- 1h 22m
- Horror
- Science Fiction
Rating: 6.4 out of 10TMDB(205 votes)
Overview
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.
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Made on a $250K budget
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Wilfred M. Cline
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Robb WhiteScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 29, 1959
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $250K
- Countries
- United States of America
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Cast
Vincent PriceDr. Warren Chapin
Philip CoolidgeOliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith EvelynMrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl HickmanDavid Morris
Pamela LincolnLucy Stevens
Patricia CuttsIsabel Stevens Chapin
William CastlePrologue Host (uncredited)
Bob GundersonRyerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennonProjectionist (uncredited)- Leon AltonMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude AstorMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard BarthelmessDavid Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gail BonneyMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)- Pat ColbyMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- George DeNormandMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- Amy FieldsMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- Clarence StraightMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Ernest TorrenceLuke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
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