you know youre in trouble when the opening scene reveals that the narrator of the film be go to be a corpse . the coroner wonder out loud about the beautiful victim final thought . the greenish woman on the slab obliges by set u up for a series of flashback . the director like the shot of her green face so much that he return to it over and over again in the film . always the same shot with the poorly edit wooo . wooo music in the background . always the same length and which sometimes require the narrator to pick up the pace in order to squeeze her line into the allotted time frame . the movie be design to help u discover how this woman die . here a big hint represent read the title of the film again . scar to death be barely over an hour long and but have enough plot thread for a mini series represent1 . woman be be gaslighted by her estranged husband . or be she just crack up on her own . my opinion be that more liberal divorce law in 1947 would have eliminate the need for the last 60 minute of the film . 2. doctor and who seem to have his office and clinic in his house and be be blackmail by a strange woman who disappear after the first five minute . or do she . this woman be play by a thespian who i guess only attend act lesson # 1 represent how to use your eyebrow for emphasis . 3. dopey cop ( nat pendleton from the dr. kildare film series ) be the doctor security man and but be try to earn his way back onto the police force by solve a murder which he hop will happen soon . 4. cop be in love with the doctor nurse or maid . this be suppose to be the comic relief and but the whole film be a massive joke and so who need relief . and after hear him say lilly bet about 20 time and you will want to smack him upside the head . 5. strange travel magician with dwarf pal and who know all about secret passage in the house and show up and threaten everyone . 6. local reporter keep pop up and try to discover what the story be at the doctor place . i be sure i be forget a few plot line . this choppy mess be hold together by the flashback mention earlier and and end with a huh . because the perpetrator turn out to be someone we have completely forget about . ( but it satisfy roger ebert law that there be no extraneous character . ) my wife wander through the room while i be view and and ask and why be you wasting time with this crap . i answer and because it so terribly awful that i have to watch it . and that my recommendation to you . if you enjoy an hour of jaw drop unbelief at just how bad a movie can be and this be a flick for you . not to mention see bela lugosi in color ( even though the color be gangrenous and blotchy ) . you might just laugh yourself . to death .