Weird Woman
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Directed by | Reginald Le Borg |
Screenplay by | Brenda Weisberg |
Story by | W. Scott Darling |
Based on | Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber |
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Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
Edited by | Milton Carruth |
Music by | Paul Sawtell |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 63 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Weird Woman is a 1944
Plot
Professor Norman Reed falls in love with and marries a woman named Paula while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his hometown, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Ilona, who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings.[3]
Cast
- Lon Chaney Jr. as Prof. Norman Reed (billed as Lon Chaney)
- Anne Gwynne as Paula Clayton Reed
- Evelyn Ankers as Ilona Carr
- Ralph Morgan as Prof. Millard Sawtelle
- Elisabeth Risdon as Dean of Women Grace Gunnison
- Lois Collier as Margret Mercer
- Harry Hayden as Dean Septimus Carr
- Elizabeth Russell as Evelyn Sawtelle
- Phil Brown as David Jennings
- Kay Harding as Student (billed as Jackie Lou Harding)[4]
Production
Director Reginald LeBorg recalls being given the script on a Friday and being told to begin shooting a week from Monday; the cast was filled out shortly before filming. This rushed production schedule was the norm at Universal.[5] Inner Sanctum films cost approximately $150,000 to produce, and shooting schedules were routinely 12 days.
Actress Evelyn Ankers would later say that she found playing a villainess rather difficult. When LeBorg would say "action" and Ankers would try to exact a menacing look, she and co-star Anne Gwynne would almost inevitably start laughing. Universal never hired her to play a villain again.[6]
References
- ISBN 9780786482740.
- ISBN 9780791437810.
- ISBN 9781365461972.
- ^ Senn, Bryan (1998). Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.
- ISBN 9780786491506.
- ^ Senn, Bryan (1998). Drums of Terror: Voodoo in the Cinema. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.
External links
- Weird Woman at IMDb
- Weird Woman at AllMovie
- Weird Woman at the TCM Movie Database
- Weird Woman at Rotten Tomatoes
- Weird Woman at Trailers from Hell