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Ann Doran as Child Psychiatrist

Ann Doran appeared in over 500 motion pictures and 1000 television shows, by one count. Starting at the age of four, she appeared in hundreds of silent films under assumed names so her father's family wouldn't find out. Rarely a featured player (although Charles Starrett's Rio Grande (1938) is a notable exception), she provided many a wonderful performance in support of the leads.

Sandy Descher as The Ellison Girl

Dark-haired, doe-eyed American child actress, on stage from age 3, who was off the screen before she got out of her teens. She was discovered at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, while on vacation with her parents.

Director Gordon Douglas, who was shooting the film, The Charge at Feather River (1953), at a nearby location, saw her at a lodge's dining room and asked if he could use her in his movie. Her parents declined, saying they had to be traveling on, but they accepted Douglas's card and later gave him a call upon their return to California.

H. MEDFORD: You were saying?

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: As I explained to Mrs. Johnson, the little girl's aunt, we haven't used anything to reduce the muscle spasms because she's too young. Narco-synthesis would be a useless procedure until we overcome her condition of Aphonia.

GRAHAM: What's Aphonia?

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: Loss of voice. She's a classic case of hysteria conversion. Only a severe catharis could jolt her at all. We . . . . .

H. MEDFORD (interrupts): May I have a small glass, Doctor.

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: Why yes, certainly.

H. MEDFORD: Pat, that acid we got.

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: Acid?!

H. MEDFORD: Formic, Doctor. . . . Thank you.

Patricia pours a small amount of the Formic acid into the glass.

H. MEDFORD: It may provide the jolt she needs. . . Thank you.

Harold waves the glass in front of the Ellison girl's nose.

She begins to blink her eyes and suddenly starts screaming.

ELLISON GIRL: AGHHH! THEM! . . . THEM! . . .

She runs to a corner screaming in hysterics.

ELLISON GIRL: THEM! . . . AGHHH! . . . THEM!

Peterson picks her up to comfort her.

H. MEDFORD: We will visit the desert now, gentlemen.

GRAHAM: It's getting pretty late, Doctor.

H. MEDFORD: Later than you think

Peterson hands the little girl to a nurse.