Weird Woman

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Weird Woman
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Produced by Oliver Drake, Ben Pivar
Written by Fritz Leiber, Jr., Scott Darling, Brenda Weisberg
Starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
Anne Gwynne
Evelyn Ankers
Music by Paul Sawtell
Cinematography Virgil Miller
Editing by Milton Carruth
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) North America March 1, 1944
Europe September 25, 1944
Running time 63 min
Language English
Followed by Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
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Weird Woman (1944) is an Inner Sanctum mystery film directed by Reginald Le Borg, and starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Gwynne, and Evelyn Ankers.

[edit] Plot

Professor Norman Reed (Lon Chaney, Jr.) falls in love with and marries an exotic woman while on vacation in the South Seas. However, the natives on the island think that she is a supernatural being.

[edit] Cast

Lon Chaney, Jr. ... Prof. Norman Reed (billed as Lon Chaney)
Anne Gwynne ... Paula Clayton Reed
Evelyn Ankers ... Ilona Carr
Ralph Morgan ... Prof. Millard Sawtelle
Elisabeth Risdon ... Dean Grace Gunnison
Lois Collier ... Margret Mercer
Harry Hayden ... Dean Septimus Carr
Elizabeth Russell ... Evelyn Sawtelle
Phil Brown ... David Jennings
Kay Harding ... Student (as Jackie Lou Harding)