Restoration provided by The Packard Humanities Institute. Inner Sanctum was preserved and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Eve Miller as Marie Kembar, Dunlap's Fiancée.

Instead, she spots her former fiancé (Harold) and leaves the train, where they fight and he kills her, revealing that she was the murder victim of the stranger's story. Resigned to his fate, Harold waits with Jean until the police arrive to arrest him.Īfter the film returns to the present, it is revealed that the mysterious stranger has an immediate and compelling interest in telling the story, and warns the woman not to get off the train when it stops. He attempts to silence the boy, but is revealed as the murderer when the boy is rescued. There he encounters a young woman, Jean Maxwell (Mary Beth Hughes), with whom he appears to fall in love, and the young boy who saw him at the station.

He places her body on the open rear end of a departing train and then goes in search of a boarding house where he can hide out for a time. The scene then shifts to acting out this narrative, which starts with Harold Dunlap (Charles Russell) inadvertently killing a woman with whom he has had a violent fight on the station platform.

He offers to tell her a story about events that began at some unspecified time at the next station. He is evidently gifted with some sort of second sight. The story begins on a train at night where an elegantly dressed woman (Eve Miller) meets another passenger, a mysterious stranger (Fritz Leiber, Sr.) She is fascinated when he is able to predict every shake and bump of the train, and every flickering moment of darkness, an instant before they occur, although he claims he has never ridden on this train before. As the story progresses, a boy who is sharing his room with the stranger realises he has witnessed the man killing a woman. The film follows a murderer who is on the run and hiding out in a small town. Morros, Samuel Rheiner and Walter Shenson. A previous film series of the show had been produced by Universal Pictures until 1945.

Inner Sanctum is a 1948 American film noir directed by Lew Landers based on the Simon & Schuster book series of the same name and the Inner Sanctum Mystery radio series.

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