Foster on Film

Eight of the city’s social elite receive telegrams inviting them to a party in their honor in a penthouse. They are corrupt politician Jason Osgood (Edwin Maxwell), the university dean who is under his thumb Dr. Murray Reid (Samuel Hinds), the man Osgood told Reid to fire for being too radical Henry Abbott (Hardie Albright),

American Tom Poston (Tom Penderel) is asked by his sometimes roommate Casper (Peter Bull) to meet him at his ancestral home. Arriving at the deteriorating mansion, he discovers Casper dead and the house inhabited by Casper’s mother, dotty Agatha Femm (Joyce Grenfell), his twin brother Jasper (also Peter Bull), his uncles, sinister Roderick Femm (Robert

Julio César Napoleón (Enrique Herrera) is a high-strung writer of radio thriller plays. His doctor sends him away for a rest, using the name Justiniano Conquián to disguise his fame. However he mistakes an old dark mansion for the sanitarium and he is mistaken for the heir to a fortune, whose name is coincidentally Justiniano

A strange scientist dies suddenly and his will is read ridiculously quickly in his old dark house on a stormy night. attending the reading, or just hanging around nearby, are the dead man’s odd lawyer (Sidney Bracy), his paralyzed and very suspicious brother (Sheldon Lewis), his two plotting servants (Martha Mattox, Mischa Auer), his constantly

Successful author William Magee (Gene Raymond) makes a bet that he can finish a novel in 24 hours and heads to a secluded lodge, that’s closed for the winter season, to do so. The timid caretakers meet him there and give him the only key to the place before leaving. He adjourns to a room

A small passenger plane makes an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere to avoid a storm. The passengers take refuge in a large, empty house. While romances and minor intrigues occupy some of the passengers, one is murdered. It turns out he was carrying diamonds. The security guard hired to protect the stones wants

Police detectives Kelly (Hugh Herbert) and Dempsey (Allen Jenkins) were fixing a flat tire in a rainstorm when they were interrupted by Vesta (Marcia Ralston), a hysterical woman in distress, who reports that her stepfather has been killed in a lighthouse. They race to the spot to find it occupied by an artist (John Eldredge),

A maniac is killing people, and attaching news clipping to their bodies. Those news clipping must be an important plot point… Nope. Never mind. Anyway, the Maniac is of little interest to Professor Arthur Hornsby (George Meeker), who has discovered a secret formula which allows a person to survive in suspended animation. At his lab

Dr. Henryk Savaard (Boris Karloff) is one of the greatest scientists in the world. He has created a technique to restore a dead body to life which will progress the art of surgery by a thousand year (or maybe a few decades). With the aid of his protégé Lang (Byron Foulger), he finishes the first

Airplanes are being shot down by an unknown killer in a biplane maked with a X. Airplane manufacturer Henry Goering (Henry Hall) and his son Carl (Leon Ames) are rightfully upset. Psychologist Dr. Norris (John Elliott) has a theory that it is an ex-World War I flying ace out to prove himself the greatest, and

Professor Morlant (Boris Karloff) dies with a final instruction to his servant (Ernest Thesiger), for a mystical gem to be left in his hand when he is put in his crypt, that way when he rises from the dead, he can go straight to paradise. But the gem is stolen. Days later, the heirs, Ralph

On a dark and stormy night, as is normal in these sorts of pictures, theater producer Herman Wood (Richard Carle) and his secretary Homer Erskine (Johnny Arthur) are being driven by playwright Prescott Ames (John Miljan) to his home when a fallen tree forces them to take refuge in a nearby house, owned by psychologist