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One of my all time favorites.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Boy am I in the minority here! As of this review, I have watched five of the six Inner Sanctum movies (still have to view "Pillow of Death"), and I thought it was the absolute worst of the five. It seems to me that most of these movies are about what a sap, or a jerk, or an idiot, Lon Chaney's characters are. He never seems to really know what's going on, at least until it's too late, making him less than sympathetic. In "Strange Confession" I had no sympathy for him at all, especially after he lets himself be suckered into going back to work for his horrible boss, and then, on top of this, lets himself be suckered again into going to South America, leaving his long-suffering wife to the clutches of his boss. How blind can you be? Also, I hated the ending (spoiler alert, spoiler alert). I would've had his wife kill the boss in self-defense. But no, Mister Idiot has to blunder in there and kill the boss himself. Maybe they got him off with an insanity plea. Bottom line, this was not "horror" or even "mystery," just melodrama and, worse, extremely boring and depressing. In case you are wondering, I gave it two stars because I watched it to the bitter end -- I reserve one star for films I can't even finish watching. Now you can all start clicking "not helpful."

In the middle of the night, an obviously injured man enters the house of a well-known lawyer, explaining to him that he's his former schoolmate, chemist Jeff Carter, and showing him the contents of his large bag - which quite obviously HORRIFY the attorney. But he sits down and listens to Jeff's story, which he begins telling in a LONG flashback: Jeff, who's always been an altruist and wanting to do good to mankind with his work, is - as his colleagues as well as his wife tell him - the ideal 'object' for exploitation by his ruthless boss Graham, the head of a big pharmaceutics company. Graham takes Jeff's formulas, rushes them on to the market in order to make huge profits, and pays him peanuts for it - until one day, he wants to market Jeff's new 'miracle drug' for all kinds of diseases, although Jeff insists that it's not perfected yet and it would be irresponsible and dangerous to sell it as it is; Graham insists, and Jeff resigns.He gets work as an assistant at a drugstore; but that doesn't seem to please his pretty young wife Mary very much, because there his salary is even smaller than when he worked for reckless exploiter Graham - and then, one New Year's Eve, Graham comes to see Jeff in order to beg him to come back to the company; and meets Mary for the first time... Immediately, the scoundrel has got a scheme ready: he sends Jeff, who consents to work for him again, and his assistant Dave to South America, where, according to Jeff, the only missing ingredient for the 'miracle drug' can be found - and so he's got him out of the way for making love to Mary, and for copying his incomplete formula and marketing it in a big way. But THEN, just as Jeff and Dave have found the right formula, a big influenza epidemic breaks out back home, and people, including Jeff's little son Tommy, are being treated with Graham's useless 'medicine'...This is undoubtedly the heaviest, most dramatic and most cruel of the six "Inner Sanctum" movies - for it deals with one of the most cruel crimes: mass murder by false medication (a similar case as in "The Third Man"). And it shows the reckless capitalism and greed of those who 'play' with human lives in this way most drastically in the shape of Graham - we have to take our hats off to J. Carroll Naish for playing that skunk in such a convincing way that we actually HATE him to the core... And at the same time, the movie 'commits' a clear violation of the Production Code: 'The sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of the crime...' But see and judge for yourself...

You would think no one would want to mess with the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, or Dracula -- all of whom the brawny, sinister-looking Lon Chaney Jr would play during his years on the silver screen. However, in Strange Confession he plays a good-natured, altruistic chemist, interested only in helping mankind by finding cures for diseases. So it's not surprising the amoral boss of the pharmaceutical lab he works for, played with slimy sophistication by J. Carrol Nash, takes advantage of his naive employee. It was bad enough he took credit and even won awards for Chaney's discoveries. But now he sends his star chemist out of the country so he can start selling an unproven influenza remedy Chaney would have objected was not reliable, and even more dastardly, so he can hit on Chaney's wife. When Chaney returns home unexpectedly and is confronted with all the distressing developments which have accrued from his sneaky boss's nefarious doings, look out! No more Mr. Nice Guy!Strange Confession is one of the best of Universal Studio's six spooky little "B" potboilers inspired by the popular "Inner Sanctum" radio show. Each stared Chaney, enjoying a change of pace from his monster image as a suave, nattily dressed leading man. Instead of monster or moron, as in Of Mice And Men, in these nifty little thrillers he plays sophisticated, well-educated men, variously a psychiatrist, a professor, an artist, a hypnotist, a chemist, and an attorney. In the line of duty he receives the sexy attentions of some of Old Hollywood B-movie land's most beautiful babes, the glamorous likes of Evelyn Ankers, Anne Gynne, Patricia Morrison, Aquanetta, Elena Verdugo, and the afore-mentioned pretty Miss Joyce. Wow! Must have been an ego boost for he not-so-handsome Chaney. Could all the cigarettes he smoked in these movies have been to cover up the steam coming out of his ears!But Chaney was a better actor than his later unrewarding roles would indicate, and he carries these short but quite good little movies with his measured portrayals of the tormented heroes. I would rate Strange Confession as the third best of the series with Weird Woman (see my review) as the best. Calling Dr. Death (1943), first in the series, perhaps has a slight edge over Strange in spite of lesser production values, because it incorporates a strong mystery-suspense angle with a tense psychological element. Strange Confession is more of a straight melodrama and the least spooky of the series. Also, Dr. Death gets a boost from the always reliable Nash's scintillating performance as a sardonic detective. Because the six pictures of the series were big studio second features, rather than impoverished independent "B" productions, a lot of mileage was made out of small budgets by borrowing sets from other, often bigger productions and by tapping a stable of on-the-payroll solid character actors such as Nash, Thomas Gomez, Milburn Stone, Douglas Dumbrille, Lloyd Bridges, and Ralph Morgan. While tacky looking in places, these little flicks are not without artistic merit. Though seldom mentioned in the context, all six movies are fine examples of the period film noir style, all loaded with night scenes, darkly shadowed and obliquely angled cinematography, femme fa-tales, doom-laden ambiance, and themes of murder, corruption, and betrayal. All the Sanctums are well-acted, well-directed, handsomely filmed, and stylishly scored.Strange Confession and the rest of the Inner Sanctum series are enduring examples of how the big studios of Hollywood's Golden Era could turn out good-looking, entertaining pictures while only half-way trying. Once you have watched the entire series on Universal's economically priced album of meticulously restored DVD's, you may wish, as yours truly does, they had made sixty of them, instead of only six!

I am a big fan of Lon Chaney Jr.It was good to see a movie where Chaney was`nt a stupid monster killing people.This is perfect! I liked it.It was very good.We bought that two movie deal Calling Dr.Death and this.Strange confession beat Dr Death in my book.Oh my it was good.Lon Chaney was a great actor.And this movie is a good way to see his gift.A great mystery.And very suspenseful.It was a great movie.See it if you want a good movie to watch.