The Frozen Ghost

Infobox Film | name = The Frozen Ghost


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director = Harold Young
producer = Will Cowan
writer =Harrison Carter, Henry Sucher
starring =Lon Chaney, Jr.
Evelyn Ankers
music = Richard Hageman
William Lava
Hans J. Salter
Paul Sawtell
Frank Skinner
cinematography = Paul Ivano
editing = Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
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released = 1952 (rerelease)
runtime = 61 min
language = English
country = USA
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amg_id = 1:92462
imdb_id = 0037722
followed_by = Strange Confession (1945)

"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.

Plot

Chaney plays the role of Gregor the Great, a stage mentalist, who is humiliated by a drunk member of his audience. He places the man under hypnosis while feeling furious with him, and the man dies while in the trance. Gregor is then convinced that he hypnotized him to death. Gregor is ridden with guilt and takes refuge in the residential quarters of a wax museum, owned by a friend, Valerie Monet (Tala Birell). Valerie, her niece Elena Verdugo, and Gregor former stage assistant, Maura Daniel (Evelyn Ankers) pursue him romantically. Something suspicious begins to happen when Valerie mysteriously disappears.