But then the movie stalls as Oliver Duffy (Lew Ayres) gets off from work as an actor, wandering an empty city (because everyone is too afraid to go out) in his costume tux, meets cute with Edwina Brown (Laraine Day), one of those round and petite 40s nonentities which cute girls in the audience must have identified with. The main horror here is that an ax murderer is wandering around Chicago axing people to death, delivering us some good headlines, we catch things up with the fifth or sixth effort.
That is, while Rathbone is aboard, and the theme is horror oriented, this really isn’t a horror movie.
Hypnotism movies were all the rage in the 1940s and the idea thus leaked into all sorts of other genres, and this is the case in this one, a clearly opportunistic exploitation of a theme it really doesn’t have much interest in.
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