The rather bland Lance Fuller plays Dr Erickson a professor of psychic research who is half-heartedly dating socialite Dorothy Chappel. Her family and social set are being entertained by a carnival hypnotist Dr Lombardi ( Chester Morris ) who uses his assistant Andrea for age regression and accurately predicts a series of killings by a prehistoric sea creature. Dorothy's father ( Tom Conway ) sees him as a cash cow while Erickson teams up with a local detective ( Ron Randell ) to thwart him.
The film is slow moving at times and looks to have been clumsily edited ( leaving Dorothy's drunken ex-fiancee a completely superfluous character ) . Morris is very good as the evil misanthropist but the creepy vibe he conjures up is dispelled by the appearance of the creature which is straight from the early Dr Who props cupboard.
Marla English ( as Andrea )
Sex : She plays many of her scenes in a thin white gown
Death : Survives
Marla was a former beauty queen from San Diego. She pulled out of the film The Mountain in 1956 which might have made her a star. She retired in her early twenties on becoming engaged to a businessman. She died of cancer in 2012 aged 77.
Cathy Downs ( as Dorothy )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Cathy was another former model but in her thirties and on the way out , her career having peaked early with My Darling Clementine in 1946. Her career petered out in the mid-sixties and she was unemployed and broke when she died of cancer aged 52 in 1976.
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