Radio's Master of Mystery... Now on the Screen!
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
Earl C. Conrad
Alice Walker
The Killer
Gorman
The Bum in the Next Bed (Uncredited)
The Deafmute (Uncredited)
Jennings, Butler (Uncredited)
Telephone Repairman (Uncredited)
Lefty Vigran aka Gorss (Uncredited)
Cop at Car Accident (Uncredited)
The Whistler (Uncredited)
Flophouse Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Tomley's Assistant (Uncredited)
Dock Watchman (Uncredited)
Police Detective in Alley (Uncredited)
Charles 'Charlie' McNear (Uncredited)
Gus, Bartender (Uncredited)
Bill Tomley (Uncredited)
Detective at Dock (Uncredited)
Police Detective in Alley (Uncredited)
15 Apr 1955
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
11 Mar 1952
While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
16 Aug 1950
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
12 May 1951
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
09 Nov 1955
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
27 Sep 1949
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
27 Feb 1955
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
08 Aug 1951
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
20 Feb 1947
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
16 Aug 1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
17 Sep 1938
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
09 Oct 1944
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
19 Apr 1945
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
30 Oct 1945
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
19 Jan 1944
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
16 Nov 1946
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
13 Jan 1950
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
04 Jun 1947
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
11 Oct 1947
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
16 Oct 2014
A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.