In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with 'afflictions'. One night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent and Ethel Barrymore
Writers: Mel Dinelli (screenplay). Ethel Lina White (novel "Some Must Watch")
Director: Robert Siodmak
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Louis Hayward
Writers: Agatha Christie (novel) Dudley Nichols (screenplay)
Director: René Clair
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Richard Greene
Writers: Ernest Pascal (screenplay). Arthur Conan Doyle (novel)
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns), seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave and Roland Culver
Writers: John Baines (screenplay). Angus MacPhail (screenplay). T.E.B. Clarke (additional dialogue)
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton and Basil Dearden
Great episode of the TV series Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Paul Steppe, a watch repairman, suspects his wife is cheating on him while he tends to his store every afternoon. Consumed with jealousy, he devises a time bomb set to go off at four o' clock - the same time her "lover" pays his daily visit.
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Nancy Kelly and Richard Long
Writers: Francis M. Cockrell (teleplay). Cornell Woolrich (story)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
Starring: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari and Frank Latimore
Writers: Eugene Ling (screenplay). Albert DeMond (story). Martin Berkeley (additional dialogue)
Director: Alfred L. Werker
A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres and Thomas Mitchell
Writers: Nunnally Johnson (written for the screen by). Vladimir Pozner (original story)
Director: Robert Siodmak
When a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Gerald Hamer
Writers: Edmund L. Hartmann (screenplay). Roy William Neill (screenplay). Paul Gangelin (story)
Director: Roy William Neill
Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton and Luther Adler
Writers: Russell Rouse (story and screenplay) and Clarence Greene (story and screenplay)
Director: Rudolph Maté