#another fun trip to the inner sanctum! Universal's saddest lump of clay Lon Chaney‚ back doing what he does best (having a dreadful time)
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Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
"I wouldn't be surprised if this man were insane. He wouldn't be the first one who'd gone mad studying the processes of the mind."
"Precisely, Captain. I compliment you on your sagacity."
"You know, it's people like you that have caused me to steer clear of all this book psychology."
#inner sanctum mysteries#dead man's eyes#eye trauma#eye horror#1944#reginald le borg#dwight v. babcock#lon chaney jr.#jean parker#acquanetta#paul kelly#thomas gomez#jonathan hale#edward fielding#george meeker#pierre watkin#eddie dunn#david hoffman#paul sawtell#another fun trip to the inner sanctum! Universal's saddest lump of clay Lon Chaney‚ back doing what he does best (having a dreadful time)#he starts off in high spirits here; he's got it all‚ a career as an up and coming artist‚ a devoted model‚ a loving fiancee and her#moneybags patron father‚ and best of all he has a little shelf on which he keeps his big bottle of eyewash next to his identical big bottle#of acid. truly what more could a man ask for. but what's that... no Lon! surely not! whoever could have foreseen such a tragic incident..#so yeah Lon loses his eyes‚ then gets new eyes but may have murdered to get them. cue classic did he didn't he shenanigans and the usual#absurdly dickish cop poking in his nose and basically bullying everyone. high melodrama nonsense but for the first time this film shows#some cracks around the edges; the cast are more variable than in the previous films‚ with Acquanetta stilted and monotone while Ed Fielding#goes too far the other way as a constantly shouting and gesticulating father figure. outside of Lon‚ Gomez is probably the best value#and seems to be having genuine fun as the asshole investigating the case. not quite as good as sanctums 1 and 2 and with a touch more#chauvinism to it (particularly in the way Acquanetta is consistently described as moody or difficult‚ or how all the male characters#discuss Parker's romantic future without her even being present let alone asked) but it still has fun nonsense to be found
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