The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
1h 24m
Running Time
October 1, 1956Release Date
The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
1h 24m
Running Time
October 1, 1956Release Date
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Plot.
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
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Cast & Crew.
Teresa Wright
Ruth Simmons
Louis Hayward
Morey Bernstein
Nancy Gates
Hazel Bernstein
Kenneth Tobey
Rex Simmons
Richard Anderson
Dr. Deering
Tom McKee
Catlett
Noel Langley
Director
Morey Bernstein
Writer
Janet Riley
Lois Morgan
Charles Boaz
Jerry Thomas
Pat Duggan
Producer
John F. Warren
Cinematographer
Lawrence Fletcher
Cranmer
Charles Maxwell
Father Bernard
Floyd Knudtson
Editor
Walter Kingsford
Professor
Noel Leslie
Edgar Cayce
William Joseph Barker
Self
Eilene Janssen
Bridey Murphy Age 15
Bradford Jackson
Brian MacCarthy Age 17
James Kirkwood
Brian MacCarthy Age 68
Hallene Hill
Bridey Murphy Age 66
Denise Freeborn
Bridey Murphy Age 8
Ruthie Robinson
Bridey Murphy Age 4
James Bell
Hugh Lynn Cayce
Jan Bradley
Guest (Uncredited)
Alexander Campbell
Dr. May (Uncredited)
Hugh Corcoran
Duncan Murphy Jr. Age 10
Anne Cornwall
Mother (Uncredited)
Tom Dillon
John MacCarthy (Uncredited)
Flora Jean Engstrom
Hysterical Woman (Uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Druggist (Uncredited)
Charles Fogel
Druggist (Uncredited)
Marion Gray
Mrs. Fuller (Uncredited)
David Halper
Butch (Uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Guest (Uncredited)
Sharon Manns
Crippled Girl (Uncredited)
Ken Miller
Duncan Murphy Jr. Age 17-19
Tom Nolan
Crippled Boy (Uncredited)
James O'Rear
Reverend Conway (Uncredited)
Mike Riva
Druggist (Uncredited)
Earle Ross
Morey Bernstein's Father (Uncredited)
Dick Ryan
Duncan Murphy Sr. / Duncan Murphy Jr. at Age 70 (Uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
Mrs. Shayne (Uncredited)
Wendy Winkelman
Rex's Daughter (Uncredited)
Jeane Wood
Kathleen Murphy (Uncredited)
Charles Grenzbach
Sound
Roy Webb
Original Music Composer
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Wiki.
The Search for Bridey Murphy is a 1956 American drama film directed by Noel Langley and starring Teresa Wright, Louis Hayward and Nancy Gates, based on the best-selling book by Morey Bernstein. It is inspired by the story of American Virginia Tighe, who believed herself to formerly have been Bridey Murphy, a nineteenth century Irishwoman, in a case believed to be that of cryptomnesia. It was the only Hollywood film to directed by Langley, best known as a screenwriter.