Foster on Film

Sylvia Walton (Ida James) returns from Harlem to the islands to inherit a banana plantation. Her half-sister, Isabelle (Nina Mae McKinney), is none-too-happy about this and has taken to the hills and plans to scare her sister away with the use of voodoo. Sylvia is enamored with her conniving overseer (Jack Carter), but she has

Vaguely sinister stuff happens. Not enough of a synopsis? OK, I’ll write more, but “stuff happens” really covers it. So, master criminal The Phantom escapes from jail before his execution, using a train and a plane. He seems to want revenge on DA John Hampton (Wilfred Lucas), and then… He’s out of the picture. Reporter

Dr. Andrew Forbes (George Zucco), an insane archaeologist, has found the treasure of Montezuma, along with a feathered serpent that was guarding it, and is keeping the beast in a cage and using it to kill by planting one of its feathers on intended victims. How he discovered all of that may have been exciting,

Sam Higgins (Gordon Harker) arrives at an isolated Welsh village to take over running the local lighthouse. The villagers are a strange and superstitious lot, believing the lighthouse to be haunted, a belief that is buttressed by the disappearance of the previous lighthouse keeper as well as Tom Evans (Reginald Tate) having just gone mad

Years ago the fathers of John Mason (John Wayne) and Janet Cater (Sheila Terry) each owned half of the Sally Ann gold mine. Carter was cheated out of his half by the father of Joe Ryan (Harry Woods). Now, mysterious letters have brought both John and Janet back to town, at the same time Joe

A rash of murders in and around the African village of Bakunda have the natives crying “vampire” and the white folks worried about how this is causing problems on the plantation. Plantation manager Roy Hendrick (Charles Gordon) talks it over with Father Thomas Vance (Emmett Vogan) and his girlfriend Julie Vance (Peggy Stewart), and decides

The city in general, and the Alden theater specifically, is being terrorized by a killer known as The Fiend. He’s a limping, cloaked hunchback, but no one has seen his face. Reporter Jean Monroe (June Collyer) publishes that she knows what he looks like, hoping to draw him out, but she hadn’t thought through the

Peter Foley (Rex Lease) is deeply in dept to G.W. Parker (Sam Hardy), and needs his inheritance to pay him off. His problem is that he needs a wife to get it, and his intended bride Alice Blake (Vera Reynolds) has been delayed. So Parker supplies him with a fake wife for the night, Julia

Disgraced mad scientist Dr. Lorenzo Cameron (George Zucco) has developed a serum that turns humans into werewolves. He plans to use it on his mentally deficient handyman, Petro (Glenn Strange), to seek revenge on the scholars who he feels have ridiculed him. His daughter, Lenora (Anne Nagel) finds their exile to a swamp troublesome 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

Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter) is a mad scientist. Make that a wacky scientist. He yells and leaps around and yells some more. He’s also working on serum for raising the dead. Helping him, due to a combination of debt and blackmail, is Don Maxwell (William Woods), a vaudeville performer with top makeup skills who

Nina MacCarron (Rosemary La Planche), daughter of the late Doctor Carruthers, of “Devil Bat” fame, is found comatose, having just arrived in town. She has a fear of vampires and her father, and she’s put under the care of expert psychologist Dr. Clifton Morris (Michael Hale), who wants to kill his wife and put the