

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
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The Tingler (1959) - Official Trailer
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Cast

Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin

Philip Coolidge
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

Judith Evelyn
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

Darryl Hickman
David Morris

Pamela Lincoln
Lucy Stevens

Patricia Cutts
Isabel Stevens Chapin

William Castle
Prologue Host (uncredited)

Bob Gunderson
Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

Dal McKennon
Projectionist (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
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