Lady in the Death House (film)
1944 film by Steve Sekely
- March 15, 1944 (1944-03-15)
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Lady in the Death House is a 1944 American film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Jean Parker and Lionel Atwill.
Plot
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 execution. Bradford holds off the warden and guards until Finch can save the day.
Cast
- 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
- Dick Curtis as Willis Millen
External links
- Lady in the Death House at IMDb
- Lady in the Death House is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Steve Sekely
- The Great Longing (1930)
- Hyppolit, the Butler (1931)
- Flying Gold (1932)
- A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
- Rouletabille the Aviator (1932)
- Miss Iza (1933)
- Romance in Budapest (1933)
- Scandal in Budapest (1933)
- The Rakoczi March (1933)
- Cornflower (1934)
- Emmy (1934)
- Purple Lilacs (1934)
- Romance of Ida (1934)
- Ball at the Savoy (1935)
- Cafe Moscow (1936)
- Danube Rendezvous (1936)
- Be True Until Death (1936)
- Half-Rate Honeymoon (1936)
- Sensation (1936)
- A Girl Sets Out (1937)
- An Affair of Honour (1937)
- Help, I'm an Heiress (1937)
- Beauty of the Pusta (1937)
- Number 111 (1938)
- Young Noszty and Mary Toth (1938)
- Two Prisoners (1938)
- Miracle on Main Street (1939)
- Behind Prison Walls (1943)
- Women in Bondage (1943)
- Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
- Lady in the Death House (1944)
- Lake Placid Serenade (1944)
- Waterfront (1944)
- My Buddy (1944)
- The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
- Blonde Savage (1947)
- Hollow Triumph (1948)
- Amazon Quest (1949)
- Stronghold (1951)
- The Empress of China (1953)
- Desert Desperadoes (1959)
- The Day of the Triffids (1963)
- Kenner (1969)
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