The Tingler (1959)
Ghastly Beyond Belief!
82 min
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.
- Release date
- July 29, 1959
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $250,000
Trailer
Cast
- Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin
- Judith Evelyn as Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
- Darryl Hickman as David Morris
- Patricia Cutts as Isabel Stevens Chapin
- Pamela Lincoln as Lucy Stevens
- Philip Coolidge as Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
- William Castle as Self - Prologue Host
- Leon Alton as Member of Silent Movie Audience
- Gertrude Astor as Member of Silent Movie Audience
- Richard Barthelmess as David Kinemon
Crew
- Richard Barthelmess · Archive footage
- William Castle · Director
- Robb White · Writer
- William Castle · Producer
- Von Dexter · Composer
- Wilfrid M. Cline · Cinematographer
- Chester W. Schaeffer · Editor