Lady in the Death House (1944) [Film Noir] [Drama]

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Mary Kirk Logan is led from her cell to the electric chair, to be “killed by the hand of the man I love.” A psychologist and criminologist, Charles Finch, tells her story. They first meet in a bar when Mary’s dress catches fire. Dr. Bradford, having drinks with Finch, helps extinguish the fire. He takes Mary home and they fall in love.

Bradford is a scientist who hopes to develop a way to revive dead tissue. He works as an executioner for the state. Mary won’t marry him unless he quits this profession. A blackmailer is killed in Mary’s apartment and she is arrested and tried. Her teenaged sister Suzy is the key to the case. Finch gets her to identify the real killer, but a race against time begins to find the governor so he can stop the excution. Bradford holds off the warden and guards until Finch can save the day.

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Directed by Steve Sekely, produced by Harry D. Edwards (associate producer) and Jack Schwarz (producer), written by Frederick C. Davis (story) and Harry O. Hoyt (screenplay), starring Jean Parker as Mary Kirk Logan, Lionel Atwill as Charles Finch, Douglas Fowley as Dr. Dwight ‘Brad’ Bradford, Marcia Mae Jones as Suzy Kirk Logan, Robert Middlemass as State’s Attorney, Cy Kendall as Detective, John Maxwell as Robert Snell, George Irving as Gregory, Forrest Taylor as Warden, Sam Flint as Governor Harrison and Dick Curtis as Willis Millen.

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Source: “Lady in the Death House” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 Apil 2013. Web. 05 May 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_the_Death_House.

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32 Replies to “Lady in the Death House (1944) [Film Noir] [Drama]”

  9. This mat be picky–but when her sister was dialing the governor, she dialed with her bare hand, but when she had the phone near her ear, she wore a glove. Now did she dial  then replace the glove to hold the phone to her ear?

  12. Unfortunately, the "lady" in the death house is not my ex-wife, the Anti-Christ. This movie deserves a remake with Leo Gorcey in the Lionel Atwill part (directed by Ed Wood, of course)

  13. I love this movie. Lionel Atwill always commands stage front! However Douglass Fowley as a doctor simply does not work for me. He was always a bad guy and did many memorable other roles but never respectable ones. But they made it work, may God bless them all!

  15. And the 'eye witnesses' from the street who saw everything–didn't see Mary run across the room… An interesting movie despite all things considered…..

  16. that was good. it got me mad and frustrated, and disgusted, and I was really holding my breath to see if they saved her in time. gee, that shoddy investigation and railroading wouldn't happen today with our forensics and technology would it!!!!

  22. Films today are more realistic, I think. Yet, why is Mary so immaculately made up in the film–especially her hair and lipstick. Guess it was the film date.

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