Invisible Ghost (1941)

Director
Joseph H. Lewis

Main cast
Bela Lugosi; Polly Ann Young; John McGuire; Clarence Muse; Terry Walker

Genres
Horror, Action, Thriller, Mystery

Description
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.


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