Rogues' Gallery

Rogues' Gallery

IT'S MURDER...in which even the corpse LAUGHS!

1944 · 60 min · ★ 5.9 · Mystery, Thriller

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.

Directed by Albert Herman · Written by John T. Neville

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Cast

Frank Jenks Eddie Porter
Robin Raymond Patsy Clark
H.B. Warner Professor Reynolds
Ray Walker Jimmie Foster
Davison Clark John Foster
Robert Homans Police Lieutenant Daniel O'Day (as Bob Homans)
Milton Kibbee Wheeler
Frank McGlynn Sr. Blake
Pat Gleason Red
Edward Keane Gentry
Earle S. Dewey Eddie Griffith
Gene Roth Mr. Joyce

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