The Man Who Turned to Stone

Mar 1, 1957

1h 11m

★ 4.5

Human or inhuman? No woman is safe...!

Overview

A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Clover Productions

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Dr. Murdock

Victor Jory

Dr. Jess Rogers

William Hudson

Carol Adams

Charlotte Austin

Tracy

Jean Willes

Mrs. Ford

Ann Doran

Cooper

Paul Cavanagh

Dr. Freneau

George Lynn

Dr. Myer

Victor Varconi

Eric

Friedrich von Ledebur

Big Marge Collins

Tina Carver

Anna Sherman

Barbara Wilson

Coroner Griffin

Don C. Harvey

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