Lady in the Death House

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

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 Richard Snell

George Irving

as Gregory

Forrest Taylor

as Warden

Sam Flint

as Gov. Harrison

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Lionel Atwill makes for quite a charismatic criminologist as he keeps this blackmail thriller moving along swiftly. He begins investigating the murder of a man so he can prevent the execution of a woman on death row, whom he believes has been wrongly convicted. To make matters worse, her fiancé is t...

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