The Impatient Patient (1942)
Telegram deliverer Daffy Duck is in a swamp. Unable to stop his hiccups, Daffy decides to seek medical help, in an old house belonging to a Dr. Jerkyl, who advertises his services on a neon sign atop his house.

In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who’s being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution…or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he’s in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.

A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student, Mary Tilford, accuses the two young women who run the school of having a lesbian relationship.


Telegram deliverer Daffy Duck is in a swamp. Unable to stop his hiccups, Daffy decides to seek medical help, in an old house belonging to a Dr. Jerkyl, who advertises his services on a neon sign atop his house.
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