The Tingler (1959)
19591h 22mNRHorrorScience Fiction
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.
Cast
Vincent PriceDr. Warren Chapin
Philip CoolidgeOliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith EvelynMrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl HickmanDavid Morris
Pamela LincolnLucy Stevens
Patricia CuttsIsabel Stevens Chapin
William CastlePrologue Host (uncredited)
Bob GundersonRyerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennonProjectionist (uncredited)- LLeon AltonMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude AstorMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard BarthelmessDavid Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gail BonneyMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)- PPat ColbyMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- GGeorge DeNormandMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- AAmy FieldsMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- CClarence StraightMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Ernest TorrenceLuke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- William Castle
- Writers
- Robb White
- Producers
- William Castle
- Music
- Von Dexter
- Cinematography
- Wilfrid M. Cline
- Editing
- Chester W. Schaeffer
Details
- Released
- July 29, 1959
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, William Castle Productions
- IMDb
- tt0053363