Boris Karloff thriller from Columbia directed by Edward Dmytryk has wonderful moody atmosphere and narration, nice settings (the second half takes place in a house on a cliff with waves crashing below) and an ideal set up: he's a scientist whose wife dies prompting him to commit experiments raising people from the dead.
This should have resulted in zombies and body snatching, but while some gruesomeness is reported we don't see enough on screen. So this never gets into high gear. It was entertaining, has Karloff and only runs an hour. Oh and there's a problematic mentally delayed handiman plus Anna Reeves as a fake medium and Amanda Duff as the daughter.
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