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



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.

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.

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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The Old Swimmin’ Hole, (1940) – Drama



Directed by: Robert F. McGowan
Teen-ager Betty Elliott (Marcia Mae Jones) has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott (Charles D. Brown). She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper (Leatrice Joy), of her boyfriend Chris Harper (Jackie Moran). Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper (George Cleveland) sends his attorney Baker (Theodore von Eltz) to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy’s dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty’s plans to see her father and the widow get married.
Runtime: 81 min
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The Loudspeaker, (1934) – Comedy



Directed by: Joseph Santley
A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the process alienates everyone around him with his arrogance and egomania.
Runtime: 69 min
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Dick Tracy’s Dilemma



Steve Michel and his henchmen hijack a valuable package of furs, but botch the original plan by killing a watchman. Detective Dick Tracy is brought in to investigate the fur thefts connected with murder with the assistance of his partner Pat Patton. Dick Tracy soon learns that the person behind it all is a hook-wielding criminal who calls himself “The Claw.” Before Tracy can unravel the bigger picture, the Claw dispatches more victims in a gruesome manner…

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Dick Tracy meets Gruesome



Gruesome, just out of jail, goes to the Hangman’s Knot saloon, where his old crime crony Melody is now playing the piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer. where Gruesome sniffs a nerve gas that paralyzes him. He appears to be dead and is taken to the city morgue. Dick Tracy is at headquarters speaking with college professor Dr. Tomic, a scientist who suspects someone has been following him. At the morgue, Tracy’s sidekick Pat has his back turned when Gruesome wakes up and knocks him out. At a bank where Tess Trueheart happens to be, Gruesome and Melody use the nerve gas to incapacitate the security guard. They rob the place and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Dick Tracy arrive …

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Dick Tracy Detective



Dick Tracy is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims are all from different social and economic backgrounds and mysteriously killed. Suspects abound but Dick Tracy step by step gets the clue that there will be fifteen murders in all. But why are different offenders are killing in common indiscriminately various people. Or is their any hidden connection?

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Scarlet Street



After a dinner celebrating twenty-five years of employment, Christopher Cross walked home. Chris breaks up a violent quarrel between a man and a woman and, after the man flees, offers to escort the woman home. She introduces herself as Katherine “Kitty” March and asks Chris to buy her a drink. When Chris admits he is married, Kitty feigns shock, but convinces him to rent a painting-studio. But more and more, the middle aged painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman…

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Invisible Ghost



Kessler is being controlled by homicidal impulses from his wife. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler’s gardener. When an mysterious man is executed for a murder done by Kessler, his twin brother tries to unravel the truth …

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