116 Scared To Death ( 1947 )

This  was  actually  filmed  some  years  earlier but  only  released  in  1947. The  mystery  is  why  anyone  thought  it  merited  releasing  at  all  though  it  has  some  posthumous  significance  as  Bela  Lugosi's  only  colour  film.

Lugosi  plays  a  stage  magician Professor Leonid, one of  many  unexpected  visitors  at  a  private  sanatorium  run  by  Dr  Van  Ee  ( George  Zucco ) . Van  Ee's  daughter-in-law Laura is experiencing  some  mental  trauma  and  in  fact  we  know  she  has  died  and  is  recounting  the  story  from  beyond  the  grave. Unfortunately  she  can't  tell  it  coherently  and  her  interjections  often  seem  to  be  placed  at  random amid  a  deluge of  red  herrings. Add  to  that  mix  some  terrible  acting  and  a  pain  in  the  arse  "comic"  turn  from  Nat  Pendleton  as  some  sort  of  private  bodyguard  and  you  have  a  real  stinker.

Molly  Lamont  ( as  Laura )

Sex : No

Death : Frightened  to  death  by  her  first  husband

Molly  does  her  best  in  a  completely  unsympathetic  role.

Joyce  Compton  ( as  Jane  Cornell )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

By  the  time  the  film  was  released  Joyce  was  coming  towards  the  end  of  a   very  prolific career  playing  dumb  blonde  roles  in  comedy  films. She  died  in  1997  aged  90.

Gladys  Blake  ( as  LiliBeth )

Sex : No

Death : Survives

Gladys  was  another  very  busy  supporting  actress  in  the  thirties  and  forties. She  died  in  1983  aged  73.