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About
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.
Theatrical
Oct 1, 1958
Box Office
$5.0M
Budget
$90K
Return
55.6x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 12, 2010
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
William Castle Productions
Keywords
nurse
mother
based on novel or book
race against time
greed
investigation
daughter
father
sister
buried alive
murder
child in peril
inheritance
doctor
corpse
housekeeper
anonymous telephone call
mortuary
blindness
graveyard
small town sheriff
child kidnapping
corpse in coffin
missing daughter
philanderer
search for daughter
loss of family
family vault
suspicious doctor
mystery villain
small town america
twist ending
Quotes
See all →A Terrifying Experience of Being Buried Alive
Taglines
As Blood-Chilling As Being Buried Alive!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Warning of Terrifying Experience Ahead
Narrator
Ladies and gentlemen - for the next hour and fifteen minutes, you will be shown things so terrifying that the management of this theatre is deeply concerned for your welfare. Therefore, we request that each of you assume the responsibility of taking care of your neighbor. If anyone near you becomes uncontrollably frightened, will you please notify the management so that medical attention can be rushed to their aid? Please set your watches. It is 6:45 in the evening in a town called Thornton...
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →W
William Prince
Dr. Rodney Barrett
J
Jacqueline Scott
Nurse Polly Baron
J
Jim Backus
Sheriff Jim Tyloe
J
Jonathan Kidd
Ed Quigley, mortician
E
Ellen Corby
Miss Kushins
P
Philip Tonge
Jode Wetherby
S
Susan Morrow
Sylvia Stevenson
C
Christine White
Nancy Wetherby
R
Robert Colbert
Nick, chauffeur
D
Dorothy Morris
Alice Wetherby Barrett
H
Howard Hoffman
Hummel, cemetery caretaker
V
Voltaire Perkins
Preacher
