Strange Confession (1945)

A chemist (Lon Chaney Jr.) working on a vaccine for the influenza is exploited by his employer (J. Carrol Naish), who is more interested in profits than integrity. When he meets the chemist's wife (Brenda Joyce), he concocts a plan to send her husband to South America for research. Directed by John Hoffman, this was the fifth of the six films marketed under the Inner Sanctum franchise. This is one of the better offerings of the series. Although it does have a morbid "twist" at the end, it's not really a horror movie but a revenge melodrama. At an hour and two minutes, it seems more like an episode of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR rather than a feature length movie. But it's a neat little B mystery melodrama with a nice performance by Naish as the unethical businessman who puts an untested drug on the market resulting in tragedy. Nothing to seek out but a watchable piece of pulp. With Lloyd Bridges, Milburn Stone, Mary Gordon and Addison Richards.