THE CLAIRVOYANT
A swindling psychic named Maximus (Claude Rains) and his wife Rene (Fay Wray) have a cheap act at a music hall where Maximus offers his phony predictions for a fee. After a series of wracking headaches change something in Maximus, he notices that when a young lady named Christine (Jane Baxter) is near, his predictions are astonishingly accurate, like his spot-on forecast of a train wreck. As his abilities become well known, he gains wealth and acceptance into elite social circles. At the same time, his marriage begins to crumble as Rene is consumed with jealousy over her husband's time spent with Christine. Maximus promises to stop using his psychic ability—but another vision materializes: a horrible accident that ends with Maximus on trial for the deaths of two hundred miners_
THE DEVIL'S PARTY
Four boys who grow up together in Hell's Kitchen make a pact to get together once every year for life. Then, fate steps in. One of the boys accidentally sets a building ablaze and his friend who takes the rap is sent off to reform school. When he finally sees his former friends again, they aren't paying a social call. Two of the neighborhood kids, now detectives, enter the reform school graduate's nightclub on a murder investigation. When one of the cops mysteriously winds up the victim of murder, the fourth friend, now a priest, steps in to uncover the truth.
THE FATAL HOUR
The Fatal Hour, a pulp-fiction favorite, stars Boris Karloff as the determined detective Mr. Wong, who this time around is called in to investigate the murder of Captain Street's (Grant Withers) friend and fellow officer, Dan O'Grady. Wong tracks subtle clues to a waterfront smuggling operation in San Francisco. But before he can apprehend the killer, he gets tangled up in a jewelry store heist that nearly gets him killed. In the end, the clever detective manages to come out on top: he solves the case and gets his man.
FEAR IN THE NIGHT
A tense and spellbinding thriller, Fear in the Night unfolds as Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) goes to sleep one night and is gripped by a terrible nightmare in which he kills a man. When he wakes up, Vince is relieved that it was all just a dream…or was it? As he discovers evidence suggesting his dream was no dream at all, the imagined terror of the night before suddenly materializes into something real and much more horrifying. In search of help, Vince turns to his brother-in-law, Detective Herlihy (Paul Kelly), who believes he is innocent. On a family picnic, they get caught in a sudden storm and take shelter at an isolated mansion. There they stumble upon a mirrored room like one Vince saw in his dream, sending him into a frenzied state of anxiety. Just as the young man considers ending it all, the resourceful detective begins to uncover the truth-a foul plot involving a sinister old recluse and the powerful spell of hypnosis_
Source: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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