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Film / 1944
Weird Woman
Directed by
Reginald Le Borg
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even …
The story
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
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Cast
Lon Chaney Jr.Prof. Norman Reed
Anne GwynnePaula Clayton Reed
Evelyn AnkersIllona Carr
Ralph MorganProf. Millard Sawtelle
Elisabeth RisdonDean Grace Gunnison
Lois CollierMargaret Mercer
Harry HaydenDean Septimus Carr
Elizabeth RussellEvelyn Sawtelle
Phil BrownDavid Jennings
Kay HardingStudent
Gertrude AstorParty Guest (uncredited)
Edmund MortimerParty Guest (uncredited)
