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After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
Theatrical
Mar 1, 1944
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Writer
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Music
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Universal Pictures
Quotes
See all →Murder with a Soft Touch
Taglines
MURDER STRIKES WITH VELVET CLAWS!
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Voodoo Death and Its Mysterious Origins
Taglines
DOES VOODOO DEATH STRIKE FROM HER ARMS?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Inner Sanctum Mysteries Collection
Inner Sanctum Mysteries collection.
Cast
Full credits →L
Lon Chaney Jr.
Prof. Norman Reed
A
Anne Gwynne
Paula Clayton Reed
E
Evelyn Ankers
Illona Carr
R
Ralph Morgan
Prof. Millard Sawtelle
E
Elisabeth Risdon
Dean Grace Gunnison
L
Lois Collier
Margaret Mercer
H
Harry Hayden
Dean Septimus Carr
E
Elizabeth Russell
Evelyn Sawtelle
P
Phil Brown
David Jennings
K
Kay Harding
Student
G
Gertrude Astor
Party Guest (uncredited)
E
Edmund Mortimer
Party Guest (uncredited)
L
Larry Steers
Party Guest (uncredited)
C
Chuck Hamilton
The Carpenter (uncredited)
D
David Hoffman
The Spirit of the Inner Sanctum (uncredited)
W
William Hudson
Second Gossiping Male Student (uncredited)
M
Milburn Stone
