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Lady in the Death House (1944)

Name: Lady in the Death House
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1944-03-15
Duration: 56 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones, Robert Middlemass

Lady in the Death House (1944), directed by Steve Sekely, starring Jean Parker and Lionel Atwill.

03/15/1944 BR Crime and Drama 56m

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Even now I can hear preparations for my execution

Synopsis

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

Gus PetersonCinematography
Steve SekelyDirector
Robert O. CrandallEditing
Jack SchwarzProducer

About the film

Lady in the Death House is a 1944 American crime film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Jean Parker and Lionel Atwill.

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Lady in the Death House is a 1944 American crime 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 will not 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 on YouTube

Lady in the Death House at IMDb

Lady in the Death House is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Text from Lady in the Death House (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_the_Death_House_(film)

Trivia

It premiered on March 15, 1944, a Wednesday.
It runs 0h56 — short for a feature film.
As of September 20, 2026, it is available in Brazil by subscription on FilmBox+.
This film's quiz has 13 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.