Col. Walters (Burton Churchill) and his Sphinx Club of Amateur sleuths is responsible for the arrest of a member of the evil Crooked Circle. The black-hooded members of the Circle choose their only female member as their assassin to avenge themselves on the Colonel tonight when he and other members of his club are staying
Grumpy millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charley Grapewin) has given up hope of finding his granddaughter, who would be his sole heir, so on the night before the inheritance tax is set to rise, he tells his greedy relative and friends (Arthur Hohl, Lucien Littlefield, Regis Toomey, Hedda Hopper, Clarence Wilson, Rafaela Ottiano) that he will give
Twenty years ago, obnoxious treasure-hunter John Prendergast (Clay Clement) insults and attacks a Hindu temple, and is cursed. He makes away with two million dollars in temple gold. In “current” day, his investors and their heirs find him, and want their cut. He agrees, but only if they stay the week in his house to
Young lovers Madeline Short (Madge Bellamy) and Neil Parker (John Harron) arrive in Haiti for their wedding, arranged by wealthy plantation owner Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer). But Beaumont isn’t being helpful. He’s obsessed with Madeline and wants to steal her away. Failing to win her over with his charm, he settles on the mystical route
Ruth Dale (Shirley Grey) is on her way to collect her inheritance, followed by three thugs, two of whom aren’t even given names because in a movie of this quality, names are an unnecessary indulgence. They plan to stop her. By chance she runs into tractor salesman Dick Bartlett (Richard Talmadge) on a train, but
Anya Karlov is seduced and then abandoned by Prince Gregor Petroff (Wallace MacDonald), a member of an obnoxious aristocratic Russian family. She dies, and as the family refuse to say which of them is at fault, nor do they show any sign of caring, her father, scientist Boris Karlov (Warner Oland) sets out to take
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
John Kendrick (Onslow Stevens), Louise Stone (Lois Wilson) and Robert Cornish (playing himself) are three happy college students out to change the world with their theory of bringing the dead back to life. At graduation, Kendrick excitedly tells his colleagues how he’s gotten them all jobs at a pharmaceutical company. The others object because a
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
Prof. James Houghland (Charles Hill Mailes) has invented a new technology for that newest of new products: the television. Multiple companies want his invention, and secretive people threaten him. During his demonstration, he is murdered. Nelson, the chief of police (Henry Mowbray) has many suspects, including Houghland’s assistant Dr. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi), medical experimentalist
A rash of murders in a small village have the citizens blaming an unseen giant bat. The kindly professor Paul Kristan (Ralph Morgan), nearly worshiped by the townspeople, has no solution. Worse still, he finds himself ill, blacking out at night as his marriage to a young girl approaches. The poorly titled Condemned to Live
Brides are dropping dead at their weddings and then the bodies are being stolen. Female journalist Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters), wanting to prove herself to her boss and male colleague, is out to get the scoop. She finds a poisonous orchid that leads her to Dr. Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) and his youthful wife who has