Lady in the Death House (1944) [Film Noir] [Drama]

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 excution. Bradford holds off the warden and guards until Finch can save the day.
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Directed by Steve Sekely, produced by Harry D. Edwards (associate producer) and Jack Schwarz (producer), written by Frederick C. Davis (story) and Harry O. Hoyt (screenplay), starring 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 and Dick Curtis as Willis Millen.
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Source: "Lady in the Death House" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 Apil 2013. Web. 05 May 2013. en.wikipedia.or....
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[@Uriahsgrandma]

I love black and white movies! So cozy!!

[@diegomalebran3824]

Hello Timeless Classic Movies: You will not have this movie with Spanish Subtitles

[@thelowmein9143]

I love how it was just everyday normal for men to dress like that no matter where they were going or the occasion. The fashions were amazing back then, at least in movies, not sure if actual people dressed like that all the time.

[@johnmcclintock8004]

They really DID ! Look at some of the earliest rare film footage of big cities like New York City or London even as far back as 1900; and observe how everyone dressed ! Really makes people today look like slobs !

[@newg3423]

Absolutely... A man would own perhaps two suits and wear one a few days... But would look sharp everyday.. let's not forget that with the two suits he have a least six shirt's,.

[@benjaminfreyman4273]

No I'm sure they did not. They wore their suits alot but it was 44' and they relaxed back then too.however women always wore dresses tho and almost always sewed their own.-sandy-

[@allenwatkins4972]

In the better parts of the cities. Or, if you lived out in the countryside, you dressed as well as you could when you went to town.

[@joelonzello4189]

Old movies show how folks dressed. Street scenes for decades showed well dressed men & women. Started getting sloppy in the 60's 🙁

[@patriciahaskins1956]

What an awesome movie! I loved everything. From the story to the acting, to the clothes, music, and the cars! This was made even before I was born. "They" just don't make them like this anymore! Thanks so much for bringing it to us! 🌈🌈🌈

[@nancyjanepaige200]

OMG I was on the edge of my seat!!! This film was fantastic!!! Thank you so much!!!!

[@LilyS1031]

I really love to watch Jean Parker. So beautiful and such a great lady!

[@bluesquirrel3919]

Those 1940s clothes and hats were to die for (no pun intended)

[@lonlinke1126]

"When I had friends, they called me Brad."...PRICELESS!!!

[@jdr1747]

another good old classic. the sound quality seems a lot better than many modern movies, too.

[@madelinetramantano8302]

REAL GOOD MOVIE. CANT BEAT THESE OLD FILMS.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

Yes I can.

[@charlesroberts8242]

For my money, these "B" films from the 40s are every bit as good and enjoyable as any "A List" movie. Very much so

[@raymondsaquet2922]

Always liked Douglas Fowley (Dr Bradford) A great character actor able to adapt himself to whatever role he was handed. Starred in many throwaway Sam Katzman serials, 'B' westerns but also some big winners like "Battleground" and "The High And The Mighty". Miss him...

[@siouxcoker7220]

Great Movie! I give it 5 stars.

[@tomdooley4226]

Enjoyable hour watching an interesting and entertaining old b/w film. Thanks! 😊

[@StevenTorrey]

And the 'eye witnesses' from the street who saw everything--didn't see Mary run across the room... An interesting movie despite all things considered.....

[@marieruiz5696]

Love this classic movies, this one keep me in suspense!!!!

[@psychkoala]

Excellent film... So enjoyable !

[@HewsonSharp-q5h]

I love these old movies. This one is very entertaining.

[@terry47family]

THANK YOU FOR THIS POST...

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

Very good film and as usual Jean Parker gave a great performance. Loved the way they had the story told by the criminologist so we were able to follow along with ease. Jean's teen age sister was a Hoot~!!! Thanks for all these timeless classics.

[@FrankiesFancy]

Also, could you find "No Down Payment" with Joanne Woodward, Cameron Mitchell & Tony Randall, made in 1957?? These are two movies I'd kill to see again!!

[@sondrajean955]

I saw that movie recently. Tony Randall was great. I think it was on youtube.

[@debbieblackledge6029]

I love Good old movies

[@AngelChester914]

Thank you.

[@johnnyray1121]

I grew up watching these movies in the 1940's. Back in the days of the double feature.

[@guxxi9746]

I need help finding an old movie. Do u think u can be of any assistance?

[@victoriamayo5774]

Me too

[@FrankiesFancy]

The last line in this movie reminds me to ask TCM if they could find a film called "You never can tell" made in 1951 with Dick Powell.

[@billythekid3234]

FrankiesFancy I have that movie on VHS,,,, It was about a Army dog,lol, It won a million dollars!, it was a wonderful comedy, crime drama,,,,,,,

[@murrayburns9808]

They ran it at least once a while back.

[@jadeSLenin]

that was good. it got me mad and frustrated, and disgusted, and I was really holding my breath to see if they saved her in time. gee, that shoddy investigation and railroading wouldn't happen today with our forensics and technology would it!!!!

[@sheriecooper4260]

There have been many black men rotting in jail that have been subsequently cleared

[@mr.blazeblue]

The 1st time I watched this, 9 or 10 yrs ago, I realized there was only one thing wrong with it. Because Cy Kendall played the detective, he shouldn't have been in the room with Finch and the reporters. Except for that, this one of director Steve Sekeley's is a top-notch film noir.

[@rosebud3971]

I love this movie. Lionel Atwill always commands stage front! However Douglass Fowley as a doctor simply does not work for me. He was always a bad guy and did many memorable other roles but never respectable ones. But they made it work, may God bless them all!

[@richq11]

+Frank Hodges I agree. They might as well have gotten Marc Lawrence!

[@lilytyler7851]

I see/saw Fowley in war films all the time.

[@Carly8Corday]

You clearly have a grasp on these things, Frank Hodges, so thank you for saying MOVIE instead of FILM. ;^)

[@tvclassicmovies2999]

needed Perry Mason

[@aaronmizzou]

Pretty stupid how resistant her sister was to save her life!!! That was a terrible character in this movie.

[@katiezee2]

Those guys seem to drink a lot. ..

[@Carly8Corday]

Everybody is all movies, nearly, guzzle liquor like it's so delicious-tasting a person simply craves it constantly. Drink, drink, drink. I've never see anything remotely like it in real life, even in bars and at keg parties.

[@lilytyler7851]

they searched the room and yet on the upturned rug, they didn't see the key that was in plain sight? Some search!

[@pav689]

Nice movie,...

[@tugglemiles2991]

She needed Perry Mason !!!!

[@christinedunn9546]

This mat be picky--but when her sister was dialing the governor, she dialed with her bare hand, but when she had the phone near her ear, she wore a glove. Now did she dial then replace the glove to hold the phone to her ear?

[@gildamarlowe5110]

Nice pick-up

[@pearldiver1006]

Christine Dunn the bare hand was the police dispatcher. Fitch told the sister the cop would help her make the call

[@Carly8Corday]

In drama, executions are always looked at as if the condemned were dear sweet people who've stumbled into grave misfortune, Fate's most vulnerable, sad, practically angelic victims. And sometimes in real life, too. In real life, it nauseates me. In movies it just gets in the way of the rest of the show. Like Suzi being almost too dippy to worry about, and that glove reappearing on the lady's hand after she'd dialed the phone with her glove off.

[@jeffolsen4983]

What an odd ball flick. I liked it. Thanks!

[@Doll676]

Very good movie 🎬

[@GregoryGLake]

I can't believe all the people in their 60s and 70s you think that these costumes are real life. People went into the movies for escape and until the mid-50s didn't go to see people with torn t-shirts. Brando of course changed all of that. If you have yours to live in the future to look at stop thinking that this stuff is for real there are all costumes. The actress is not really wear her street clothes on camera _ I work on films today it's wardrobe hair makeup Mrs Mazel land.

[@reds84257]

SEE IF THEY DO THIS TODAY WITH THESE KIDS KILLING WHO EVER THEY PLEASE...THEY WILL STOP IT REAL FAST ..IF NOT THE TIME IS COMING WE THE PEOPLE WILL TAKE IT IN OUR HANDS AND STOP THESE SENSELESS KILLING ..

[@austinevplab7167]

Great film, I enjoyed it. Some quirks here and there. . @7:00 the doorbell buzzes and she opens it but the doors swings outward into the hallway.

[@FredMoore-x1s]

Love this Movie

[@authorlydiagreen1862]

Bravo, excellent

[@lisamarielund6292]

“How did you know that was a car key, it couldn’t been a house key”. “Oh I don’t know; I just supposed”! WHAT?.. Who wrote this anyway?

[@STORMY0O]

Susie is like today’s youth! Selfish and self centered. They would sell their mother’s soul for a dime! Great movie!

[@FredMoore-x1s]

A Happy Ending.

[@eze417]

I hate to see a beautiful dame go to the chair, especially if she's innocent.

[@tomdooley4226]

Well, yeah. It's always bad when someone who is innocent is executed. 😢

[@markrubin9449]

Unfortunately, the "lady" in the death house is not my ex-wife, the Anti-Christ. This movie deserves a remake with Leo Gorcey in the Lionel Atwill part (directed by Ed Wood, of course)

[@kathleen3379]

+Mark Rubin Leo would be awesome..I love his work...

[@neilangus4401]

Weren't the cars stylish in those days

[@usandthem6748]

I genuinely love old movies, but this one is sadly unbearable.

[@loganboggs9236]

LOGAN is my name

[@mariannenapoles4923]

I didn’t get the movie. 😢

[@charlesdowns1691]

not seen this one yet

[@johnnyandrada9935]

I really enjoy that movie I'm glad we had the last laugh

[@johncooper3583]

not too bad, not too good. the marcia mae jones/suzy character is poorly written, acted and storylined.

[@christinedunn9546]

saw Marcia May on TV in the story written by Lillian Hellman-- she was terrific

[@zenfirebird5360]

Was a nice film, but this doesn’t fall under the noir category. More of a suspense mystery film. The ending was neither Bittersweet, ambiguous, sad, or a “karma” ending. Also Bradford and Mary didn’t quite fall under the noir characters tropes…well in the flashback it looked like they were heading that, but was subverted.

[@rosstabacoff9439]

If that wasn't noir then I don't know what is

[@phillyeagles4lifego-birds944]

Brad wants to plow Mary till next July !!

[@loganboggs9236]

I am TOM LOGAN.

[@xrisku]

a little sister about as selfish and useless as my own. didnt think it possible.

[@sheriecooper4260]

Try to do something for her before it is too late those narcissts don't get better with time I know from experience.

[@andreichivu7653]

The unmistakable perfume of noir-thrillers of the 40ies...when directors still made true PICTURES.....and actors knew how to ACT...Nowadays movies are 1000 % woke,sick crapola !! 🤪

[@erniebakeswell9623]

what a misconceived, botched, dreary little movie, its turgid scenes full of listless dialogue, badly stitched together via countless flashbacks into a convoluted story, disconnected from recognizable human behavior or accepted legal procedure. I did sit through the entire 56 minutes. I can't say why, except Lionel Atwill's voice has a way of pinning me down until he's through. he made this turkey because he needed the money. fair enough. and I saw it for free.

[@vleldaddio210]

Lionel A. NOT A VILLAIN !!!!???? 🤬😡🤔✔️

[@pearldiver1006]

Clint eastwood did a version of this

[@blex5579]

the thing i take away from this are the Denver Sandwiches...the rest is average at best.

[@puck30]

Good Film, badly chopped in parts but other wise okay!

[@sheriecooper4260]

Exactly now we have flashbacks that are.edited better. The best thing was Bob at the end come to think of it he looks like my old beau.

[@Moronvideos1940]

I downloaded this

[@rzz1122]

so what? want a cookie?

[@Carly8Corday]

Pat on the head and a smile would have been civil.

[@kaddlehopper710]

ech el ido phugh palumateg iffa po difeey

[@jimlaguardia8185]

Melodrama. Not film noir.

[@howard44mag]

9

[@dennistedder3384]

Booooring

[@christinedunn9546]

Whoever made up Jean parker should never have been selected to do so; Parker's lips looked ridiculous.

[@Joebunkyss1]

+Christine Dunn beuty is ever fleeting.

[@Joebunkyss1]

+Christine Dunn beuty is ever fleeting.

[@Joebunkyss1]

+Christine Dunn beuty is ever fleeting.

[@kathleen3379]

+Christine Dunn it's just a damn movie.....

[@myrnal34lewis10]

So, Wroblewski, what does that have to do with Dunn's critique ? Even make-up is part of a film--or else there would be no make-up people.

[@lilytyler7851]

Films today are more realistic, I think. Yet, why is Mary so immaculately made up in the film--especially her hair and lipstick. Guess it was the film date.

[@reddawncomming5889]

cgi and films are more real today?

[@kerstinh.6221]

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[@BillColeExperience]

Films were an escape from times that were tougher than today.

[@Carly8Corday]

I'm suddenly tickled at the pervasive use of "film" instead of just saying movie, here, and all over the KZbin MOVIE channels. But especially here!

[@stevefilice9784]

@@reddawncomming5889 with you, movies today do little for me! Love the 40's and 50's

[@LilyS1031]

I really love to watch Jean Parker. So beautiful and such a great lady!

[@christinedunn9546]

we saw this remark

[@LilyS1031]

And.....?

[@Tsumami__]

Christine Dunn who is "we"?

[@psdavenport]

+Lily Blekicki I love Jean Parker too !!

[@Carly8Corday]

What remark?

[@bullitt7544]

Splendid little film. Small but capable cast pulls it off well. Nice piece of cinema. Thank You once again for another great selection by TCM

[@richardmcleod5967]

Lionel Atwill was a very distinguished Actor in Hollywood having starred with many of the greats from Hollywood's Golden Era including Marlene Dietrich in "Blonde Venus" the last film directed for Dietrich and Atwill by Josef von Sternberg, one of the most accomplished Directors in Hollywood. Lionel Atwill's accomplishments and various film roles for many years put him in a special category for Actors during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

[@pearcerf]

This is a really good movie! Suzzy was a little over the top I may say. Excellent acting by all.

[@Carly8Corday]

I'm not so sure Suzi was any less real than most of the infuriating teenagers in movies and TV.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

One great movie!

[@petekanter9059]

Apparently the director, Steve Sekeley, made a certain error that could've easily gone unnoticed. There wasn't any reason for the detective, (Cy Kendall), to be in any of the scenes where Charles Finch (Lionel Atwill) re-tells the case. Why? Because Cy Kendall played the detective who wanted Finch to stay out of it.

[@Victor-lp6pe]

greatest movies thirties forties fifties sixties I watch nothing else

[@keithharris7569]

Not bad at all...

[@helenabme1197]

"Who'd expect a woman to be that logical"? LMAO Thanks for the ad-free upload.

[@onlythewise1]

they had innocents back then , who ignored innocent until proven and went innocent until thought guilty

[@ralphmondi5278]

Is this the weakest inciting incident ever? She won't marry him because his an executioner? Does she love him at all? :-)

[@vivianlang5269]

Good movie ♡♡♡♡☆☆☆☆☆

[@bleakhouse5646]

This movie was made before actors were discovered.

[@reds84257]

❤❤❤TCM IS THE BEST OF MOVIES

[@markr.devereux3385]

Wow somebody has been smoking too much and tripping. What a wacky storyline . An Executioner for the dept. of corrections who meets a beautiful doll who happens to have been set on fire.....researching cellular biology following electrocution....OMG. the author deserved a special award for this one.

[@tomdooley4226]

I wrote it 😊

[@markr.devereux3385]

@@tomdooley4226 I decided the original story probably appeared in some pulp fiction magazines that were popular in those years. They were cheap and readable and usually available in many locations. one place an aspiring author could sell stories to earn money. Movie studios borrowed storylines that were in print and considered them for possible film noir b pictures.

[@tomdooley4226]

@@markr.devereux3385 You're right and I confess, I didn't really write it. 😪

[@craigroberts6439]

You could drive a truck through the plot holes....but I enjoyed watching...the sister sure didn’t seem to care about saving Mary, much more concerned for herself.

[@macabhaird8789]

A good one - thanks

[@kev3d]

So the doc pocketed the key with a foreign fingerprint, which matched the foreign fingerprint on the murder weapon? The doctor KEPT exculpatory evidence?! Good lord. With friends like these...

[@frankmccann9824]

I WONDERED WHY I LIKED THIS FLIK SO MUCH. ANOTHER FACTOR: THE MUSIC SCORE. MS GREY DID A MOST WONDERFUL JOB. LISTEN TO IT MORE CLOSELY. PARDON CAPS, VISION PROBLEMS.

[@joet840]

How many ads do we have to listen to and watch before it starts ? This I'd ridiculous, worse than cable TV.

[@joet840]

@cosmicVox13 For some reason I do ! Maybe you have paid for KZbin subscription and get no ads.

[@iindiar]

if it was up to the sister, Mary would be dead

[@dareisnogod5711]

This film is from 1944, the year I was born. I didn't care for it then & I still don't now.

[@DavidRice111]

Cranky old man much?

[@MickeyMRay]

I was gestating in my mom's womb in 1944.

[@timtran7756]

Good movie

[@BuddyShephard]

VERY EXCELLENT MOVIE!!! Good plot and very good actors and a happy ending!!!