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Sorry, this movie sucks

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Reginald Le Borg directs this horror and mystery film from the Inner Sanctum franchise. Professor Norman Reed (Lon Chaney, Jr.) falls in love with a beautiful woman, he meets while on vacation in the South Seas. He returns to his college community to some excitement over his new book and mixed emotions about his exotic new wife Paula (Anne Gwynne). She is given a cool reception, especially from Ilona (Evelyn Ankers), who thought Reed was returning to her. Most of the town is thinking that Paula is a voodoo princess that can conjure supernatural phenomena. Jealousy, death and strange events lend to hardship for the island beauty to adjust to life among vicious suspicions. Is she actually a superstitious witch? A very strong cast also features: Ralph Morgan, Lois Collier, Phil Brown, Harry Hayden, Elisabeth Risdon and Gertrude Astor.

While on a South Seas island, Professor Norman Reed (Lon Chaney, Jr.) meets and falls in love with beautiful but superstitious Paula Clayton (Anne Gwynne). The two marry and return home where Reed's career quickly flourishes. Soon, Reed discovers his wife has brought her island's voodoo practices home with her. When he makes her stop, bad things start to happen to him.The second in Universal's fun Inner Sanctum series starring Chaney. This one has an excellent supporting cast, led by Evelyn Ankers in a rare villainous role as Chaney's witchy ex-girlfriend Ilona. Ankers seems to be having a lot of fun with the part. Wait til you see her final scene! Anne Gwynne and Lois Collier join Ankers as the movie's trio of lovely actresses. The rest of the cast includes Ralph Morgan, Elisabeth Risdon, Harry Hayden, and Val Lewton regular Elizabeth Russell. They're all great. The novel on which this is based, "Conjure Wife," would be adapted again with the sixties classic Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn!). Weird Woman is another cool Inner Sanctum movie. Definitely check it out and see the whole series as they are all fun.

College professor brings back native voodoo woman as wife, causing problems with romantic rivals and academic colleagues.Best way to take this disappointing second entry in Inner Sanctum series is as occasional camp. Those jungle voodoo scenes are laughable with their mumbo-jumbo ramblings and back yard staging. Then too, I'm still wondering just which one of the movie's genuine lovelies is supposed to be the weird woman. Can't be sweet-faced Paula (Gwynne) since she's about as weird as Shirley Temple. But then there's cat woman Elizabeth Russell (Evelyn), who's apparently wandered over from the great Val Lewton horror series, with a hard-eyed stare and piercing manner that's enough to send Clint Eastwood running for cover. Too bad they couldn't make her the weird woman.The real problem is with Chaney. He's hardly the intellectual or romantic type, while putting a Clark Gable moustache on him doesn't compensate. That might be okay if he really tried. But he comes across as generally bored with the part. Too bad, because he's capable of good work, as in Of Mice and Men (1940), that is, when he's motivated. On the plus side are all the good-looking girls for the guys, and I like the way the screenplay works in the academic intrigues. Ironically if you take out the silly voodoo angle and Chaney, there're the makings of a pretty good dramatic plot and cast in what's left. However, as things stand, there's nothing much in the way of either imagination or surprise in this disappointing second entry.

In the 1940s, Universal Pictures made a nice series of mysteries under the umbrella of "The Inner Sanctum" films. Each starred Lon Chaney, Jr. and were nice little mystery films--especially good since they were B-movies--with a lower budget and pretensions since they were intended as a second film in a double-feature.In this film, Chaney is a Sociology professor who meets a woman on a South Pacific island. Oddly, while everyone there looks Polynesian, she looks like Rita Hayworth's sister--with very white skin and 1940s American style hair! Despite bad casting, the film mostly has to do with Chaney and his bride's life once they return to his university in the States. It's obvious that Chaney's old girlfriend is an evil shrew and she spends most of the movie treating the newlyweds horribly. In response, the bride decides to use her island magic to protect them. However, when the scientifically minded Chaney finds out, he destroys her trinkets and immediately bad things begin to happen! How all this is worked out made me very happy--as the film didn't take a cheap or easy way out and created a very good mystery with a fitting conclusion. A very good film from a very good series.By the way, this film is one of six that have been released on DVD--with three episodes on each DVD. This is from Disk 1 and also includes DEAD MAN'S EYES and CALLING DR. DEATH (a great title)--both of which are of comparable quality. I strongly recommend you see the series and if you like it, also try Columbia Pictures' WHISTLER series--as it's very similar in style.