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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 18:13:27 GMT
Black & white, assume US, probably 30s/40s. Poverty row studio I assume. Seen on TV as early as 1960. Some details may be a bit off as memory is about 50 years old.
Mad doctor type in old or large house with beautiful daughter. Detective or reporter male lead or equivalent comes to investigate something. Wants to impress woman. Climbs into large device in lab with a chair in it claiming it is a radio and he knows all about radio. Is stopped from activating it, which would kill him or something.
Not THE CAT CREEPS (1946), but similar feel in my memory. Probably not Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys, 'cause I've been watching those looking for this.
NOT: THE DEVIL COMMANDS (1941) No claiming it's a radio. DOCTOR X (1932) ditto
Just returned from absence, will be exploring BEWARE SPOOKS suggested by carlcarlson--thanks carl. A Joe E. Brown character is exactly the kind of character who would fit my memory and I have never explored that title.
I'm excited.
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Post by hutch48 on Feb 6, 2017 18:17:28 GMT
Not certain at all, but the radio reference makes me think of Boris Karloff in THE DEVIL COMMANDS (1935). Boris is trying to communicate with his dead wife, but scientifically; he tries to replicate a "séance" with mechanical stand-ins that look like hazmat suits, all wired up & connected by radio.
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Post by hutch48 on Feb 7, 2017 4:31:35 GMT
It also reminds me of DOCTOR X (1932), with Lionel Atwill as the mad doc & Fay Wray as his beautiful daughter. Again, no guarantees: that specific scene I don't remember (but there are IIRC a bunch of "electric" chairs).
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Post by hutch48 on Feb 7, 2017 7:25:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 13:24:38 GMT
Thanks for the thinking, hutch, because these are well-known movies which I have watched several times each I dismiss them from my thinking. These are 2 horror/thillers which indeed have the elements.
But what I'll do, which used to be a hard thing to arrange but now is easy, is review them and get a definite "no" I can stand behind and commence a list of "no's" on this thread.
I've been on the lookout for the answer for decades.
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Post by carlcarlson1 on Feb 22, 2017 4:41:37 GMT
Maybe Beware Spooks! (1939)? A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house. www.imdb.com/title/tt0031095/Added: I seem to recall a movie, possibly Beware Spooks!, where bumbling detective rigs radio to signal cops, head villain has swank office in amusement park haunted house.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 13:29:33 GMT
Maybe Beware Spooks! (1939)? A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house. www.imdb.com/title/tt0031095/Added: I seem to recall a movie, possibly Beware Spooks!, where bumbling detective rigs radio to signal cops, head villain has swank office in amusement park haunted house. Thanks for the BEWARE SPOOKS! thought, I can't place it by title so maybe. I'll check. The bumbling detective suggestion sounds like a Red Skelton vehicle--but because some of his films, if not all, were remakes wouldn't it be funny if a Skelton movie was a remake of my desired movie? Or, worse, if a Skelton movie was my desired movie? I keep thinking what I saw was obscure.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 8:59:21 GMT
The Return of Doctor X?
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Post by hutch48 on Mar 7, 2017 4:55:39 GMT
I thought of that, too, and there is an abrasive reporter guy, but IIRC nothing that looks like an electric chair. I could easily be wrong, tho.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 7:52:19 GMT
You're probably right. I only remember Return of Doctor X having a reporter in it and weird experiments by a doctor using weird instruments. I think Humphrey Bogart (what were they thinking? LOL) played in that role.
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