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The Tingler

"Ghastly Beyond Belief!"

64
Audience
NR 1959 · 1h 22m
Horror, Science Fiction
Starring Vincent Price · Philip Coolidge · Judith Evelyn
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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.

Theatrical
Jul 29, 1959
Budget
$250K
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 1, 1996
Theaters
2
Director
William Castle
Writer
Robb White
Producer
William Castle
Music
Von Dexter
Studio
Columbia Pictures, William Castle Productions
Keywords
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Cast

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V
Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin
P
Philip Coolidge
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
J
Judith Evelyn
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
D
Darryl Hickman
David Morris
P
Pamela Lincoln
Lucy Stevens
P
Patricia Cutts
Isabel Stevens Chapin
W
William Castle
Prologue Host (uncredited)
D
Dal McKennon
Projectionist (uncredited)
L
Leon Alton
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
G
Gertrude Astor
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
R
Richard Barthelmess
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
G
Gail Bonney
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
P
Pat Colby
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
G
George DeNormand
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
A
Amy Fields
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
C
Clarence Straight
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
E
Ernest Torrence
Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
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