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| writer = [[Edgar Allan Poe]] (short story "The Premature Burial")<br>Lewis Graham<br>Edward Olmstead<br>John H. Auer
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| starring = [[Erich von Stroheim]]<br>Harriet Russell<br>[[Dwight Frye]]<br>John Bohn<br>[[Jean Brooks]]<br>[[Paul Guilfoyle (actor born in 1902)|Paul Guilfoyle]]
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The movie was filmed at [[Biograph Studios]] in [[The Bronx, New York]] and is loosely based on the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] short story "[[The Premature Burial]]".
 
==Plot==
Dr. Crespi (von Stroheim) hates Dr. Ross (John Bohn), who marries Crespi's ex-girlfriend. Ross must undergo surgery, during which Ross appears to die. However, Crespi has given him a drug that puts Ross in a trance-like state, but leaves him conscious. Dr. Arnold (Guilfoyle) becomes suspicious and calls on Dr. Thomas (Frye) to to help him. They exhume the body and find Ross buried alive.
 
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