The Tingler

The Tingler (1959)

Ghastly Beyond Belief!

  • Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
  • Release Date: 1959-07-29
  • User Rating: 6.4/10 from 165 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 22min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Columbia Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: William Castle
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Summary

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.

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  • Vincent Price

    as Dr. Warren Chapin

  • Philip Coolidge

    as Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

  • Judith Evelyn

    as Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

  • Darryl Hickman

    as David Morris

  • Pamela Lincoln

    as Lucy Stevens

  • Patricia Cutts

    as Isabel Stevens Chapin

  • William Castle

    as Prologue Host (uncredited)

  • Bob Gunderson

    as Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

  • Dal McKennon

    as Projectionist (uncredited)

  • Leon Alton

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Gertrude Astor

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Richard Barthelmess

    as David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Gail Bonney

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Pat Colby

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • George DeNormand

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Amy Fields

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Clarence Straight

    as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Ernest Torrence

    as Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Writing Robb White Screenplay
Production William Castle Producer
Directing William Castle Director
Costume & Make-Up Monty Westmore Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Hazel Keats Makeup Artist
Sound Harry D. Mills Sound
Sound John P. Livadary Sound Supervisor
Directing Herb Wallerstein Assistant Director
Art Clarence Peet Property Master
Art Milton Stumph Set Decoration
Art Phillip Bennett Art Direction
Editing Chester W. Schaeffer Editor
Sound Von Dexter Original Music Composer
Camera Wilfrid M. Cline Director of Photography

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